E LIGHT OF LIFE 



OR 



THE MASTERY OF DEATH 



DELMAR DE FOREST BRYANT 




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THE LIGHT OF LIFE 

OR 

THE MASTERY OF DEATH 



THE LIGHT OF LIFE 

OR 

THE MASTERY OF DEATH 



BY 

DELMAR Deforest bryant 

Author of "The Dawn of Death," " The Diyine 
Symbols," "The Art of Alchemy." 



THE SUN CENTER PUBLISHING CO., 

BOSTON, MASS. 

1911 



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Copyright, 1911 
By Dklmar De Forest Brtamt 

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Published, August, 1911 



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The Inspiration or 
RAME VIDELLO 



■ I am the Light of the World: 
He that foUoweth me shall not 

walk in darkness 
But shall have the Light of Life,'* 

If a man keep my saying, 
He shall never see death.' 



CONTENTS 



OHAPTER 

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I. What is Life? . 

II. The Lost Word 

III. The Origin op Gods 

IV. The Creative Principle 
V. The Phantasy of Death 

VI. The Garden of the Gods 

VII. The Tree of Life 

VIII. Marriage and Divorce . 

IX. The Rationale of Regeneration 

X. The New and Living Way . 

XI. The Mystery of Christ and the Church 

XII. The Stone the Builders Rejected 

XIII. The Changing of Water into Wine 

XrV. The Water of Regeneration 

XV. The Meaning of Baptism 

XVI. The Secret of the Seed 

XVII. The Serpent and the Devil 

XVIII. The Gold Fish . 

XIX. Luz, THE Resurrection Bone 

XX. The Food of Regeneration 

XXI. The Sun-Clothed Woman 

XXII. The Beast and Its Image 

XXIII. Sin and Its Remedy . 

XXIV. The Saintly Image . 
XXV. The Unborn Souls . 

XXVI. The Prayer that Prevails 

XXVII. The Future of the Regenerate Race 



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PREFACE 

" The Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness compre- 
hendeth it not," 

For the past two thousand years at least, the world may 
be said to have been in a condition of mental and spiritual 
darkness. This period, or the earlier part of it, is called the 
Dark Age. The history of this age, distinguished by nothing 
so much as man's inhumanity to man, is familiar to all, and 
needs no recapitulation. 

A few pessimists of the present proclaim that the age of 
darkness is by no means at an end, and some are wont to 
predict even a darker age to follow, but the consciousness of 
the optimistic majority is awakening responsive to the Dawn 
that is surely breaking over the world, repudiating such pessi- 
mistic prognostications as reactionary and retrogressive. 

We have but to take the mental and moral conditions of 
two hundred, or even a hundred, years ago and compare 
them with the conditions of today to become conscious of 
this wonderful illumination and its many revelations. And 
what is this New Light that is thus suffusing the earth, work- 
ing all these wondrous changes, and transforming the world 
and its ways? 

It is the same Light that shone in the darkness of the past, 
but which the shadowed mind of man was unable then to 
perceive, or to utilize. Materially speaking, it is corporeal 
sunlight — the light of the sun that for all ages since the 
beginning of terrestrial time has been shed upon the earth, 



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its matrix, and caused the manifestation of all natural 
phenomena. 

Through the dark ages a belief was current that there was 
to come sometime a better and a nobler age — a Millennium 
— a period of peace, when all wars and discords should be at 
an end and justice and truth should prevail in the earth. 
But it was thought this period would be ushered in by some 
supernatural demonstration, that an angelic herald would 
announce it by a trumpet blast from the skies, whereupon 
the Son of Man would appear in all his glory as the lightning 
flashing from east to west. Thus the Scriptures declared it. 

But could a more literal fulfilment of this belief — this 
prophetic vision of the human mind — be possible than just 
what has occurred? Has not the lightning, darting at random 
erst across the sky, its god-like presence announced by 
thundrous roll, been brought to earth and made to flash 
forth intelligence around the world? 

And are you not, O man! satisfied with this silent, 
mysterious manifestation of the Light? Is it of too material 
a nature to conform to your notion of what the Dawn of the 
Millennium should be? You still await the coming of the 
Celestial Son of Man? Then know that your intuition is 
true, and that such shall appear! From the Son of Woman 
shall come the Son of Man, and behold, he cometh quickly! 
And his coming will transform all things, fulfil all things, 
revealing the Son of Man as the Son of God! 

But how different the appearing from what has been ex- 
pected! Not in the splendor of nebulous pageantry amid 
angelic hosts doth he burst forth to view — not as a conquer- 
ing heavenly hero doth he come! He cometh obscurely, 
unknown and unrecognized, even as the Christ came two 
thousand years ago, as a Seed sown in the Soil of the Human 
Soul, the soul of humanity — a seed which has been gestating 
within the dark womb of time and which has nearly fulfilled 



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its period, being already in the birth-throes, as evidenced 
today by the unrest of the world, and the cry that goes up 
to heaven for delivery. 

The sprouting of this Seed of Light betokens the unfold- 
ment of the Regenerative Principle in the race. This 
principle has, to be sure, through evolution been always 
unfolding, but distinctly different periods in the unfoldment 
are to be noted — the germination, the springing forth to 
light, the subsequent growth, the flowering and fruitage — 
each a distinct period, each exhibiting wholly different 
phenomena. Who that had not witnessed it would believe 
that the plant came from a seed.^^ And who, unacquainted 
with the seed, could from an observation of the plant ever 
imagine what the seed was like? 

We are, in the present age, just merging from the germina- 
tion into the first visible manifestation of this marvel. We 
see Electricity, the evangel, in the wilderness of the world 
announcing the coming of a still more wonderful and potent 
light — one that is to transform the bodies and souls of men 
on the spiritual plane, even as electricity has transformed 
the mechanical and motive forces on the physical. 

" As above, so below." As the great force which today 
moves the machinery of the world lay for ages upon ages 
unknown and unsuspected deep within the heart of the 
earth, requiring only to be brought forth and manipulated 
by natural means and agencies to produce all this marvelous 
turning of a myriad mighty wheels — to set whirling millions 
of lesser wheels — to set mankind free from toil, so another 
mighty force is lying deep buried within the hidden nature 
of man, unknown and unsuspected, requiring but to be 
uncovered and intelligently utilized to complete the illumina- 
tion of the world and set men free from all the many unhappy 
and unfortunate conditions that now cramp and embitter 
life — the fear of poverty, the fear of sickness, the fear of 

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death — all swept away as shadows by the rising of this 
mighty Sun of Truth, whose auroral beams are already 
heralding our entrance into this new and glorious age of 
masterful achievement. 

But, as our primitive forefathers might have kicked about 
a piece of coal, despising it as a dirty and useless object, 
unconscious of the solar power locked beneath its forbidding 
exterior, so the great mass of the present earth-dwellers will 
look upon the discovery of this illuminating principle in 
man with incredulity if not with contempt, and will continue 
looking to the skies for some miraculous relief from their 
many woes. Did not Christ, the Master, the " despised 
and rejected of men," declare that " The kingdom of heaven 
is within? " Have you sought the way to enter and possess 
this kingdom. f^ 

Lo, the hour of promise has come! The birth of the 
Christ-child of the New Age is at hand! All things have 
been made ready for the great event! Everything has helped 
to make the miracle possible! The old religions preserved 
the traditions, the New Thought has removed the super- 
stitions! All are looking for Light, more light! 

The burden of every prayer ascending to heaven from the 
foundation of the world, be it the prayer of pagan. Christian, 
Mohammedan or whomsoever, is essentially the same: 
LORD, GRANT US PEACE — FREEDOM TO THINK 
AND LIBERTY TO ACT — UNDERSTANDING OF 
LIFE AND EMANCIPATION FROM DEATH! This 
all-embracing prayer, however formulated, whether silent 
or spoken or to whatsoever deity directed, is the expression 
of the LIVING IDEAL — an ideal to be reahzed by any 
and all who will advance boldly and fearlessly to gaze 
upon the effulgence of THE LIGHT OF LIFE! 



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THE LIGHT OF LIFE 



CHAPTER I 

WHAT IS LIFE? 

Of the origin and destiny of the human race, one may 
know Httle or nothing, but he may, through observation and 
study, learn something of its evolution and progress. 

As to what it is in nature that effects progression, human 
opinion appears divided. Some claim it as the result of an 
extraneous power, while others perceive it to be due to the 
operation of an interior potency. 

To say that " all is within " is quite as sophistical as to 
aflSrm that all is without. The within is eternally correlated 
to the without. Every formal manifestation depends 
primarily on a central point of attraction — a force within 
that draws to itself from without that which is essential to 
its perfect manifestation.. 

What the precise nature of this crystallizing, vital, interior 
force is, whether magnetic or deific, may perhaps never be 
known, and it is really of far less importance to us to name it, 
than to understand how we may consciously maintain a 
hold upon it, for that of itself means perpetuation of life. 

What is life? Who can tell.? Mentally it might be defined 
as thought, feeling, consciousness. These, no doubt, are 
some of its important manifestations — the flower and 
fruitage, so to speak, of the great Life-Tree; but the Tree 
itself, that grows spontaneously, sending its roots deep 
down in the earth, growing aloft to the highest heavens, and 
filling the whole world with its branches, what is this? 

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Though man himself, its most wondrous limb, may have 
reached the point in growth and development where he is 
able to turn and contemplate the parent organism, realizing 
somewhat the marvel of it all, yet he really understands little 
more of what it actually means than he did when, as a tiny 
crystal, he lay within the clasp of one of its rootlets about to 
be raised on high by the mysterious force within, to begin 
participation in the grandeur of its general evolution and 
unfoldment. 

Within the sphere of man's observation, no spot is to be 
found devoid of life. Life is omnipresent. The earth teems 
with its myriad manifestations. The world invisible is no 
less replete with forms of life than the visible world. At the 
same time that lenses are being enlarged and perfected to 
peer into the abysms of space bringing into view new worlds 
and systems of worlds, microscopy is piercing deeper and 
deeper into the realms of infinitesimals and discovering 
therein no end of marvels. 

Up to the present time, the mind, busily engaged upon 
what is termed scientific research, has done little more than 
observe and classify certain details of the great life-phenom- 
ena as they become manifest to the natural senses. It has 
not yet been able by any method or operation to discover 
either the origin or the end of life. It has been thought 
that there is something in the nature of life itseK incompre- 
hensible to the human mind, and that it must remain a 
mystery forever. 

Fortunately man possesses a faculty by which he may 
unravel this mystery. Being essentially a part of the great 
Life Tree, his heart connects with the heart of the Tree 
itself, that is to say, his inmost planes contact those of 
interior Nature, wherein resides the actuating, creative, 
formative, organic life-principle. Through this connection 
man comes into cognition of himself, and learns to know 

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Lis place in nature and his relation to the universal scheme 
of things. 

The senses, which are the avenues of communication 
between the mind and the outer world, convey only impres- 
sions of external things. No matter into how small a particle 
matter be subdivided, the eye sees only the outward form of 
it, and makes its report to the brain, or thinking faculty, 
accordingly, so that the tabulated thought is, after all, but 
a picture of externals, ever devoid of the internal significance 
of the object. 

So the majority of people pass through the brief period of 
their lives quite unconscious of any world except the visible 
one in which they live, gaining only the most superficial 
knowledge of the objects with which they come in contact. 
The earth, the sky — mountains and plains, rocks and 
streams — insects, birds, beasts, men — all pass before them 
as a panorama, creating but fleeting impressions, ephemeral 
dreams. 

And of all this vast movement of life in nature what do 
we really know or understand.'^ We gather things together, 
name and classify them, as, for example, the rocks of the 
earth. By a study of their fossils we think to gain a clue to 
the age of the planet. But suppose we do — is that the point 
of supreme interest? Suppose the rocks told us to a day the 
date of the arrival and departure of each and every species 
that has ever existed on the earth, of what real use would 
such information be.^ It might satisfy a certain chronologic 
curiosity, but it would not help us to solve the vital question, 
which is. How life originates and how it is 'perpetuated? And 
so with all our investigations into nature's marvelous ex- 
hibits including paleontological researches and excavations 
for historic relics. We simply return from our explora- 
tions like the amateur geologist with a basketful of frag- 
ments, and, begging the real question at issue, submit 

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these as evidence of our scholarship and scientific attain- 
ment! 

But scientists have been doing the best they could, and 
in some respects have done much better than they know; 
for in the course of their researches, many important truths 
have been disclosed, though frequently they have been 
unrecognized. The most vital things have been ignored, 
because of the scientific method of demanding ocular proof 
and demonstration — diagramming and photographing — 
of everything. Vital facts refuse to get before the camera, 
and unless we learn to probe for them with other instruments 
than the scalpel, we may never hope to bring them to light. 
Life walks before us with sign-boards on which in occult, 
flaming characters is set forth the legend of its nature and 
destiny, but owing to a peculiar mental astygmatism, we 
have thus far failed to read the legend, and the mystery of 
life remains unsolved, and less guessed today than in the 
days of Plato and Pharaoh. 

Nevertheless, this is, comparatively speaking, an age of 
wonderful achievement. Men are wresting from nature one 
after another of her secrets and utilizing them to the advan- 
tage of the race. Steam, electricity, coal, oil, manipulated 
by the genius and ingenuity of man, have virtually trans- 
formed the earth, making it possible for man to harness the 
energy of the sun and drive the Chariot of Phoebus at will 
over the earth and seas, and up through the very vault of 
heaven itself! 

Every one of these discoveries was at one time a dream, 
often the veriest figment of a dream, in the mind of some 
man — a dream which the great mass of men discredited 
and laughed at as folly, and yet the dream came true if the 
dreamer believed in it, and earnestly set his mind and heart 
to prove it. 

There is, however, one dream, which, though it enters 

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into the consciousness of every human being and finds ex- 
pression in the Hfe of every individual, has not, as yet, been 
reahzed, and that is the Dream of Eternity — of an unending 
existence of the hfe-expression called ME. This dream or 
concept appears to have formed a part of the consciousness 
of man in all ages of the world. And, though the universal 
experience known as death seems to negate the possibility 
of a limitless expression of the individual life, yet the mind 
clings blindly to its belief in immortality. This belief lies 
at the foundation of every religion — the idea of all religion 
being fundamentally one and the same, the attainment of 
conscious existence after death. 

Is it possible that this dream of immortality will ever be 
realized? If we go back thousands of years, away back of 
the time when the blood was known to circulate or the brain 
to think, and examine the records of people living at that 
time — records carved in hieroglyphics upon rocky tablets 
— we find evidences that by some faculty or other men's 
eyes were at that time opened to perceive something of the 
vital principle underlying this great Life Mystery, and it is 
by the words and symbols with which they described it that 
we today may most easily discover the Key to its unfold- 
ment. But, in order to use this key with any practical 
results, it will be necessary for the modern man to train his 
mental faculties to view things as the ancients did, sub- 
jectively. 

How, then, do we become conscious of the real thought 
embodied in those ancient writings? All language is an 
expression of universal thought. Every word is a thought- 
symbol. Though the form of the symbol itself may change, 
the underlying thought persists. The adoption of certain 
sounds or combinations of sounds to express certain ideas, 
apparently fanciful or arbitrary, occurs really in accord with 
a definite law. The sounds themselves have an interior 

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sense, and though from age to age they change, as the forms 
of leaves upon a tree, yet the permeating sap, or sense, 
remains the same. And it is through the medium of this 
essential sap, flowing eternally and unchanged through the 
great Life Tree, that man today is able to apprehend the 
thought as expressed thousands of years ago in the hieratic 
writing of Egypt, the runes of the Druids, or the cuneiform 
inscriptions of Babylonia. 

Isaac Meyer in Qaballah very beautifully expresses the 
idea of the unfoldment, office and limitation of words in the 
expression of thought, as follows: 

" We can Imagine a language in its first beginnings, in 
which every act and operation of the mind, every idea and 
relation, was expressed by a matter-image, or symbol, a 
language at once based purely on the senses and the material, 
its words only mental pictures like its written symbols, of 
which, the archaic Egyptian hieroglyphics may be con- 
sidered an example; higher than this we can imagine a 
language with a world of mind and a world of matter dis- 
tinct, but such cannot in this matter-world exist, r All 
language exists between two extremes and is passing con- 
tinually from one to the other, it is never, no more than 
are the stars and the universe, at any time standing 
still. 

"The language and words in the Holy Scripture are 
intermediaries between the seen and the unseen, thoughts 
are the winged angels which partake of both the visible and 
the invisible as did the angels of the Bible. They are spirits 
which may be clothed in the ether of man's breath and so 
become visible, but not always, for language cannot always 
define and formulate, those things which are within the 
veil; there are things we feel which we cannot formulate 
into words, the sigh of sorrow, the cry of despair, the 
exclamation of anger, the ecstasy of heavenly bliss, of love 



WHAT IS LIFE? 

and hope of earthly happiness, are a few of the thoughts we 
can never formulate into words. 

" The nearest approach that man can make to the unseen, 
is that inner communion which works silently in his soul 
but which cannot be expressed in absolute language nor by 
any words, which is beyond all formulations into word 
symbolism yet is on the confines of it and the unknown 
spiritual world. This is conceptualism. We experience 
these feelings only in our hearts and inner thoughts, that 
which strikes our consciences as right or wrong comes un- 
bidden to us and without any logical sequence, is like a 
dream. The more intensely man feels the highest intel- 
lectuality, the more thoroughly does his spirit enter into this 
spiritual communion and the more difficult it is to express 
to others these emotions and undefined concepts — this 
converse with another world; formulate them, express them 
in words, and we draw them down to a gross, dark and 
material plane. Silence, meditation, intercommunion with 
self, this is the nearest approach to the invisible. They are 
sublimations. Many of our ideas are only negations, the 
Highest Deity is clothed, as to Its essence and appearance, 
in darkness to the infinite thought. Yet even these nega- 
tions are affirmations and we only leave the opposition to the 
negation, a condition to our thoughts, of vagueness and 
uncertainty.'* 



CHAPTER n 

THE LOST WORD 

" In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with 
God and the Ward was God,'^ 

The mystery of all creation appears to hang upon a cer- 
tain Word. Tliis Word is invested with magical potencies. 
God speaks the Word and the unmanifest comes into mani- 
festation. The Scriptures make frequent allusion to this 
Word, which is said to be all-powerful to create or destroy. 

The Hebrews regarded this Word as the Deific Name, 
which no pious Hebrew would pronounce, always substitu- 
ting for it in his prayers another word. Once a year the priest 
entered the Holy of Holies and, amid the blare of trumpets, 
pronounced this Word. The Hebrew name of God literally 
expressed is Yod-He-Vav-He, or lEVE, referred to in the 
Qabbalah as Tetragrammaton, " the four-lettered." It is 
easy to observe how Javeh^ or Jehovah, originated from this 
word lEVE. The Hebrew substituted word was ADONAI, 
" Lord." 

The idea of mystery connected with this deific Word 
comes down even to the present time. In Masonry it is 
taught that the true Word has been " lost," and a substi- 
tuted Word is given " until future generations find out the 
right." But who of the many thousands receiving this 
substitute ever stop to analyze its true meaning? If one 
should, a key to the most momentous possibilities might 
therein be discovered. This, however, is but one of the 
many instances where the mind is so engrossed in sensual 

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experience and so buried in formalism that it entirely over- 
looks the real, perceiving only the false or negative exterior 
of things. 

I have set myself the task of unfolding to the consciousness 
of my readers not only the real creative Word itself, but its 
true meaning as well, for it virtually is a word. It is " lost " 
only in the sense that it is at present not apprehended, for it 
is as actually existent and operative in nature today, as in 
the mythic ** beginning " when God is said to have spoken 
the Word and thereby brought all created things into being. 

The Bible is very aptly termed the " Word of God," 
because therein the true word is plainly revealed to him 
that hath the inner ear opened to hear and understand it. 
It may here be stated that this book, the Bible, is the most 
grossly misinterpreted, the most thoroughly misunderstood, 
book in the world. It has been the means of establishing 
numerous churches and religious sects, and forms today the 
foundation of our entire ethical and legislative code, thus 
proving itself a most remarkable book, yet the occult 
knowledge which it contains makes it a still more remarkable 
book than it is supposed to be. 

If theologians had let the Bible alone, and ceased their 
concoction of schemes for man's salvation based upon their 
personal conception of the Bible's meaning — if all the cant, 
creed and ceremonialism of the church could be wholly 
eradicated from human consciousness and the human soul, 
now held as a pawn in the great game between God and the 
Devil, were left free to thread its way along this unknown 
labyrinth of symbol and myth, it would, through its own 
inherent intuition, ultimately strike the right path. 

However, it is an encouraging fact that man cannot go 
wholly wrong if he tries. All circumlocutions bring him in 
time to a point where he is able to see his error as a stepping 
stone to progress. Even in the apparent paradoxes, or 

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logical untruths, of religion truth lies concealed. Take, for 
example, the theological dogma regarding " salvation by 
good works." The church insists on moral behavior and the 
performance of charitable deeds, yet none of these, according 
to its real doctrine, contributes one whit towards the sal- 
vation of the soul, which is declared to be accomplished only 
through the " shedding of Christ's blood." 

The belief that a man, though he had throughout his life 
been a veritable angel of mercy to the poor and oppressed, 
dispensing kindness and blessing everywhere, will be eter- 
nally damned because he has neglected or refused to an- 
nounce his belief on Christ and the blood atonement, while 
on the other hand that the criminal who may never have 
had anything but murder and vice in his heart may, at the 
last moment as the death-cap is slipping over his eyes, 
announce belief in this " inscrutable mystery of Christ " 
and be transported immediately to bliss eternal — such 
belief, though it be a fundamental doctrine of the church, 
appears to the mind capable of reason absolutely incon- 
sistent, unjust, and worthy only of rejection. 

But, if we divest this idea of all superstition, abolishing 
the celestial throne on which, since the age of our poetic 
ancestry, have been seated the various deities, and bring 
divinity itself down to man, where alone man may become 
conscious of it — if this be done, then it can be clearly and 
scientifically shown that this, and other similarly absurd 
statements of theology, are actually based upon truth — 
how that good works do not " save " the Soul (the life) — 
and how that belief on Christ (knowledge of the Christ) is 
the only possible means of such salvation. 

But what is it to be ** saved "? And what is the " saving 
grace " in this belief on Christ? This is the crux of the whole 
proposition. In the new Light of Life, to be " saved " 
means to be saved from the experience of death. Death is 

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damnation, the penalty for sin, which is the unpardoned 
transgression of the law of life. Salvation consists in a 
knowledge (belief is conditioned on knowledge) of how to 
live in such a manner as to evade this natural penalty of 
death. 

This alone constitutes the Christ-life, and any " belief " 
in Christ that does not relate to, or afford, this knowledge is 
a mere falsity — an imagination or superstition. Has the 
church any such knowledge .f^ Who in all the congregations 
ever dreamed that any such knowledge is available.'^ What 
one of the priests, preachers, prelates or popes has ever 
demonstrated the power said to have been bestowed by the 
humble Nazarene on his followers and raised the dead, or 
saved the dying? Let a myriad cemeteries reeking with the 
decaying bones of a million saints attest ! 

And all this gigantic blunder, this world-delusion, ex- 
tended over a period of more than a thousand years, during 
which fanaticism raged rampant, streets ran rivers of blood, 
mad zealots piled high the fagots at the stake and gloated to 
see the cruel flames scorch black the beautiful limbs and hear 
the martyr's voice in prayer grow faint and stifle amid the 
awful smoke — a period which included the horrors of the 
Spanish Inquisition, of religious massacre, of papal wars, of 
royal intrigues, of every atrocity and crime against nature 
and humanity — all perpetrated in the name of this dreadful- 
misconception of the Truth of Christ! 

And today we boast of our emancipation from the super- 
stition, intolerance and bigotry of the Dark Ages, yet is it 
not observable that we, as a people, retain something of the 
same spirit that formerly animated those religious fanatics? 
Do we not continually condemn, scandalize and ostracize 
lending our voice and influence in society and legislation, in 
the pulpit and the press, to suppress, crush out and destroy 
those who voluntarily choose a code of ethics and morals 

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differing in any way from our own? And does our own code 
differ essentially from that of our bloody ancestors? Are we 
really when put to the test less fanatical or vindictive than 
they in our expression of resentment against any individual 
expression that happens to be contrary to our educated 
belief? Have we really developed, and do we display, more 
love and charity than our ferocious forebears? A few of us, 
perhaps, yes; but, as a race, we are certainly a long, long 
ways from the realization of the ideal freedom, and as for 
civilization, we are but just emerging from the jungles of 
barbarism! The only thing that saves the world and makes 
progress possible is the complete separation of church and 
state. Give the church, either branch of it, Catholicism or 
Protestantism, free rein, and back it up by the power of the 
state, and you would soon see a revival of the atrocious in- 
tolerance of the middle ages. 

And this condition now, as heretofore, is due simply to 
ignorance — to a lack of true understanding, brought about 
and perpetuated by listening to the dictates and suggestions 
of the Devil-Mind, instead of the God-Mind — by extolling 
intellect and ignoring intuition. For, if the intuition were 
rightly developed or unfolded, and the mind were trained 
to act in obedience to it, the whole truth of life would be 
seen to stand out clear and plain not only in nature, but in 
this wonderful record of nature, the Holy Bible. If the mind 
could but divest itself of superstition and pride, humbling 
itself to become as a little child, and listen, it would learn the 
truth, perceptible at first only as a " wee small voice," but 
in the end growing into a thundrous message from deity, 
greater and grander than that which Moses received on 
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CHAPTER III 

THE ORIGIN OF GODS 

" Destroy this Temple and in Three Days 1 will build it up! '* 

This statement on the part of an obscure personage made 
two thousand years ago brought down upon his head the 
vindictive criticism of the prevailing reHgious order and led 
to his crucifixion. Thus the body or " temple " of the man, 
Jesus, was destroyed and, according to his previous claim, 
he rebuilt this temple and rose from the grave on the third 
day, manifesting himself openly and proving his identity to 
his disciples. So runs the record. 

Today there are millions of people who believe, or profess 
to believe, this story literally, and yet, despite the fact that 
Jesus before his final disappearance declared that he would 
come again to earth, there is hardly one in a million of these 
believers probably but what would regard any man as a 
lunatic or crank who should appear claiming to be Jesus. 
And if any one did come forward claiming either to do what 
Jesus did, or to be able to demonstrate the natural law on 
which all his reputed miracles are based, he would un- 
doubtedly be denounced from every pulpit in the land as a 
blasphemer. And yet this same Jesus said plainly that 
greater miracles than he ever performed would be possible 
to his disciples. 

There is evidently something amiss here. Either the man 
Jesus who is said to have uttered these strange words and 
to have done these strange things was a myth and an im- 

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poster, or else, if he really did the things claimed, there 
must have been some secret in his doctrine or method which 
has entirely escaped the observation of his later followers. 
For the very last words Jesus is reported to have spoken on 
earth are these: 

" And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name 
they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 
they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing 
it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they 
shall recover,^' 

Following this injunction, it is said that the disciples went 
forth preaching, confirming the Word with signs following. 
Do professed believers in Christ today do any of these things? 
They " go forth preaching," but the " signs " do not follow. 
And why not.^^ Has the age of miracles passed.^ When was 
the power to do these things lost? I will tell you when it was 
lost. 7^ was lost when the WORD was lost. Men today pro- 
fess belief in something they do not understand, and their 
profession passes current for knowledge. " By their fruits 
shall ye know them! " 

There is really very little substantial historical evidence 
that such a man as Jesus Christ ever lived. The authority 
on which we accept this entire tale needs authorization. 
There is, indeed, far more evidence that Gautama, Zoroaster, 
Confucius and Mohammed were actual historical characters, 
yet even these, as time advances, appear one by one to pass 
beyond the horizon of the real into the shadowy background 
of the mythical, where they finally become deified and 
continue to live on in the thought of the people, the glory of 
their personality and doctrines growing ever greats. 

From time immemorial men have been accustomed thus 
to deify their heroes. All the gods of Greece, Rome, Scan- 
dinavia and the Orient appear to have sprung from men — 
men who sometime lived in human form, experienced human 

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passions and died like other men, being finally translated to 
the skies as rulers over planets and stars or other imaginary 
abodes. A goodly number of them were supposed to live 
beneath the earth in a place called Hades — a place to which 
modern religion consigns souls of quite a different type. 

Any one who makes a study of comparative mythology 
will perceive that the gods and goddesses of the different 
peoples are the same under different names; and further- 
more that all, or nearly all, of them express something con- 
cerning the nature or natural environment of man. The 
conclusion, therefore, is irresistible that they are all man- 
made, being only poetic expressions of man's conception of 
natural objects, which by personification come to appear 
later on as actual beings of supernatural origin and power. 

But the important point to be considered is this: the 
poetic impulse which led to this personification of natural 
phenomena proceeds from that inner sphere of intelligence, 
which may be designated as the God-mind, or Soul, the 
KNOWING faculty. To express it another way, it is truth, 
because emanating from the source of all-truth. But just 
because of its celestial derivation, it will, when brought forth 
and subjected to the examination of the ordinary mentality, 
that which I have designated as the " Devil-Mind," appear 
an inverted image, and convey the opposite idea from what is 
really true. This turning of soul-images upside down, so 
characteristic of the human mind, explains in a large measure 
the chaotic condition of human beliefs in the world at 
large. 

To the natural mind, all claims to revelation from any 
source outside of the mind itself appear foolish and without 
foundation, yet it is impossible to reason out how otherwise 
thought is born. Surely it cannot be manufactured by the 
brain. All human discoveries are in the nature of revelations. 
Revelation may be called the voice of God speaking through 

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the soul and apprehended by the organism of the mind when 
in subjection to the soul. 

Who were Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, etc., 
on whose testimony we have received this revelation of 
Jesus Christ? No one can tell. We do not know that such 
men ever lived any more than we can possibly verify the 
earthly existence of the Master. But, after all, of what con- 
sequence would an authentic record of any of them be? 
Suppose their names were all to be found in some baptistry, 
or that their tombstones could be pointed out, still might 
they not in their day have been falsifiers? What, after all, 
is the sense of this mania for " proving the Bible " by 
attempts to verify the authorship? Such verification, if it 
could be made, would not in any way establish the truth of 
the Scriptural statements; in fact, looking at it rightly, it 
would go far towards invalidating such truth. 

Does anyone imagine that such a record as the Bible 
would have survived the ages, if it were simply historical? 
Real history is ephemeral. It endures for a comparatively 
short period, then passes into oblivion. The reason why the 
Bible records have survived as they have, and why they 
have maintained such a hold upon the human mind, is 
because they are purely mythical — poetic revelations — 
soul-messages received inspirationally by different great 
souls along the line. For this reason, the soul of man, at 
all times, recognizes them as true and thev become im- 
mortal. 

I have no controversy whatever with him who chooses to 
believe in the actual personality of Moses or Jesus Christ. 
If one has to set up an image, either mental or otherwise, in 
order to come into a conception of the truth, it is better 
than that the truth should not be conceived at all, though 
such images no doubt obscure the clear perception of the 
truth, and veil its actual meaning, 

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However, regardless of what this one or that one may 
believe or profess to believe, it is evident that we are evolving 
into an age which demands an entire revision and re-inter- 
pretation of these sacred records, for, to the thinking mind 
of today, they are, as literally read, incredible. The pre- 
vailing theologies, even, have had to be revised and amended 
from time to time in order to keep pace with the sluggish 
unfoldment of the pew-holders, but it will take afar more 
sweeping revision of the whole theological scheme to re- 
attract the thousands of communicants that have dropped 
out of active association or severed their aflBliation with the 
church, because its doctrines appear to them childish and 
antiquated, and totally inconsistent with reason, with 
nature, and with life itself. 

But even if the exodus from orthodoxy should go on as it 
is going until every pew in the land became emptied, and if 
all the Bibles in the world, save the one I hold in my hand, 
should by universal edict be gathered together by the un- 
believers and fed into a mighty holocaust about which the 
nations assemble to dance in impious glee, there remains 
THE WORD to be uttered from this very Book which would 
stop the flames, and bring every knee to bow in rapt adora- 
tion. And this word is the Word that names the Nam£ of 
Jesus Christ! 

It is, indeed, the most wonderful of words. It is all and 
more than the zealous apostles who indited the Scriptures, 
and the clericals who preach concerning it, claim it to be. 
It is the word that stands for eternal life — not eternal 
life in some other sphere — not eternal life after death — 
but ETERNAL LIFE ON THIS PLANET! 

And why has this Word not been heard and understood 
before? Admitting that Jesus came as recorded, what came 
he to teach and to demonstrate? What but immortality here 
and now? If he did not come to teach this, then there is 

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nothing in his teaching, and the whole scriptural record 
concerning him is a fairy tale and a religious hoax. But if 
this really be the Christ message, as can be shown, then it 
is by all odds the grandest, the most stupendous, revelation 
that has ever been unfolded to human consciousness, and 
every word relating to it, or throwing any light upon it is 
more than precious. 

It can be shown from the internal evidence of the Scrip- 
tures, from Genesis to Revelations, that this is the one only 
truth struggling, as it were, through the media of crude 
words to come into manifestation. For, be it known that 
the Scriptures are wholly symbolic. Every Biblical char- 
acter, from Adam to John, is to be regarded as purely myth- 
ical, introduced figuratively into the narrative by the writers 
to bring to the consciousness some truth relating to certain 
vital principles, natural facts, connected with the life of 
man. And, though it may all read like ancient history, it has 
direct reference to present and future experience. It is a 
record of truth for all time. 

Let not the reader think that this book is designed merely 
as a Biblical commentary, of which there are already too 
anany. I make these preliminary statements regarding the 
Bible in order to prepare the mind for what otherwise might 
appear as arbitrary interpretations or improbable assump- 
tions. One can, to be sure, find much the same evidence 
and corroboration of this truth in other sacred writings, but 
in many ways the Bible transcends them all in point of 
clearness and completeness, while its availability makes it 
specially desirable as the chief book of reference. 

Many, no doubt, will wonder why the Bible need be intro- 
duced to support a purely scientific thought, since it is not 
generally supposed to be a scientific book. There are two 
reasons for this. First, the Scriptures rightly interpreted 
are singularly supportive of the thought to be presented, 

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giving it both authority and weight, while conversely the 
thought once established goes far to prove the authenticity 
of the Scriptures themselves. Secondly, this thought could 
never be intelligently imparted, or brought clearly to the 
mind, by ordinary scientific disquisition. It is something 
that has to be perceived by and through an unfoldment and 
exercise of the soul-faculty — the very faculty, in truth, that 
inspired the writers of the Scriptures to express the thought 
as they have done symbolically. Once the fog that now en- 
velops Biblical symbols be lifted, the Scriptures will declare 
the truth more eloquently and more clearly than any one 
could possibly do by adherence to ordinary scientific ter- 
minology. Therefore, we search the Scriptures, for in them 
we find the Path to Eternal Life. 



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CHAPTER IV 

THE CREATIVE PRINCIPLE 

" And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters" 

This statement, in common with the entire genetical 
account, refers to no specific time in the world's history as 
commonly supposed, but is simply a scientific statement of 
an ever existing fact and ever recurring phenomenon. The 
beginning of the manifestation of all organic life is in the 
water. The waters of streams, lakes and oceans teem with 
life — from myriads of invisible infusoria and animalculse, 
up through a multitude of visible forms of worms, molluscs 
and fishes. In the sea are to be found some of the strangest 
and most wonderful forms of life. 

The lowest observed form of life-substance is termed 
Protoplasm, which appears to be the immediate offspring of 
the Spirit and the Water, being a simple, gelatinous mass, at 
first of no particular form, but later on entering into the 
composition of the cell — the first organized structure or 
being, the ancestor of the individual of every species. 
Strictly speaking, the cell itself is the only individual, and 
it is worthy of notice at this point that so long a^ the cell 
remains an individual — a single cell posited in a nutritive 
field — it is practically indestructible and " immortal." It 
is only when several cells associate, as they do in obedience 
to some subtle law of attraction, presenting complicated 
forms — multicellular organisms as they are called — that 
conditions apparently inimical to the life and permanence 

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of the organism itself are established, and we have the 
results known as disease, death and disintegration. 

The persistence of the life-phenomena in the cell, as ex- 
hibited in the higher organic types, is due mainly to a process 
of accretion of certain elements drawn from an apparently 
inexhaustible source by some force, energy or potency 
resident at the center of the cell. Herein appears the only 
mystery. All the rest of the creative process is as appre- 
hensible as mechanics. 

Something, identically the same thing which is now 
moving this pencil in accord with a definite thought and 
purpose, is there in the Water, at the beginning, moving, 
intelligently moving, to create for itself a body, or vehicle, 
of expression. It makes very little difference what we call 
this Creative Principle. Call it God, if you will, only that so 
much of ignorant superstition clings to this word that it 
seems preferable not to use it in this connection. A good 
name for it would be the Archeus, or the Builder. The Son 
of God was a " carpenter," therefore, we may consistently 
refer to our God as a Builder — " the Supreme Architect of 
the Universe." 

By study and observation, we are able somewhat to 
analyze and understand the work, or operative method, of 
this Builder. At the center of the cell, there appears to be 
a vacuum, created presumably by the presence and action 
of this Spirit-Entity, and towards this, as into a vortex, 
rush the particles sublimed from the surrounding matter, 
each of which, on a vastly more infinitesimal scale we may 
suppose to have been created in a manner similarly as the 
cell is now being formed. Scientists used to postulate the 
atom as the ultimate particle of matter, but more recently 
they have discovered the Ion, an infinitely smaller particle, 
which for the present may be considered the finality — the 
eternally existing, unchangeable particle of matter. 

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These particles of matter form the food of the hungry 
Spirit within which devours, digests and assimilates them by 
means of a primitive, yet no less wonderful, digestive ap- 
paratus, consisting, to all appearance, simply of a Watery 
Substance, the ever encompassing vehicle of Spirit. In 
this " stomach " of the cell, the indrawn matter undergoes 
certain very remarkable changes, being raised in its essential 
quality, and thereby fitted to form the body of the cell itself, 
all of which is brought about by the action of the indwelling 
Spirit " moving on the face of the enclosed water," within 
the sphere of this minute structure, or being. 

What then is this Spirit.^ Is it possible to define it in 
terms of human consciousness .^^ It is, we may say. Life. It 
is Light. And though the light be here in darkness, it is 
still a form of light, manifesting consciously as heat or 
warmth. We define heat as " a mode of motion " and light 
as " an undulation of ether," but these, like most scientific 
definitions, are but feeble attempts to express in words what 
to the mind is really an inexplicable phenomenon. 

There can be no objection to naming the Spirit that moves 
on the waters, God, providing we think of this God as an 
Eternal Principle, permeating all substance — a Spirit 
building for itself a body of expression out of a body of sub- 
stance, which is but the disintegrations of garments worn by 
this same deity in the past, and with which it again and 
again re-clothes itself. 

It satisfies me to know that the substance of this matter 
remains permanent. It satisfies me to know that the 
internal, spiritual Builder is eternal, because then I know that 
the indestructible matter that enters into my body is the 
very same that floated originally in the great sea of proto- 
plasm, which matter has been built over and over by this 
tireless Spirit a myriad times, into a myriad shapes, until 
at last it has reached the shape of me, and thus I AM THAT 

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I AM, the latest structure of this Divine Archeus, the 
highest expression of God. 

Now, then, I wonder what can be the aim and object of 
this Spirit of me, starting out in so humble a manner, to all 
appearance a mere crude congelation of matter, a lump of 
protoplasm, a cell — continuing on and on through such a 
long and varied succession of forms, each one in turn torn 
down and rebuilt on a higher, a better plan? 

The best way to answer this is to think, what would be my 
object in doing this were I the Builder? This is not difficult 
to understand. The dwelling that I should build for myself 
at any given time would be my highest ideal of a house, and 
would be built according to the very best plan I knew. It 
might be suited to all the needs of my environment at the 
time, but new conditions arising, the house becomes unsuited 
to my growing needs, compelling me to tear it down and 
rebuild it, and this I do again and again, as time advances. 

We may thus observe and trace in the struggle for exist- 
ence and supremacy that goes on from mollusc to man the 
cause for all this demolition and reconstruction of forms — 
this constant improvement and advancement of types and 
structures. And we can recognize our Spirit, or God, as 
the author, creator and finisher of all. 

One thing we do not find anywhere along the line of this 
tremendous evolution, until we find it developed as a super- 
stitious concept in the selfish mind of man, and that is the 
idea of annihilation or Evil. The destruction of a particular 
body is regarded by man as the result of a force antago- 
nistic and opposed to the general constructive energy. But 
this is only a narrow view. For reason teaches us that the 
destruction of imperfect forms is the only natural method by 
which a higher reconstruction can take place. Thus we may 
say there is One Power, and one only, operative in nature 
and the universe, and it is this Power which says in words: 

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" See Now, That I, Even I, Am He, And There Is No God 
With Me: I Kill And I Make Alive: I Wound And I Heal: 
Neither Is There Any That Can Deliver Out Of My Hand, 
For I Lift Up My Hand To Heaven And I Say, I LIVE 
FOREVERl " 



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CHAPTER V 

THE FANTASY OF DEATH 

" Death, where is thy sting? Grave, where is thy 
victory? " 

Whence came death into the world? It came with Hfe, 
and has ever been present, not as a power, or force, operating 
antagonistic to life but as a normal and essential part of the 
life-phenomena itself. Death is therefore not an " evil," it 
is the means through which the good comes into manifesta- 
tion. The death of a succession of forms which life assumes 
makes it possible for life at last to achieve perfection in a 
permanent form which then means, consciously, deathlessness. 
And this is what is meant by the attainment of " Immor- 
tality." 

We live, not in the midst of death, but of life. The Spirit 
that animates us is immortal, every atom of our bodies is 
immortal. Death, when it occurs, means simply temporary 
dissolution of the present form, which is inadequate to meet 
or adjust itself to the requirements of the expanding Spirit. 

Looking at it, then, rightly, this dissolution and recon- 
struction being but the normal mode of Life's procession, 
ought not to be characterized by any sinister term like death, 
signifying annihilation or something worse. The idea of 
such death may be shown to be purely a concept of the 
human mind, a certain false consciousness, which has been 
acquired as all consciousness is acquired, superficially, 
through the experience of the external senses. 

In order to understand the falsity of this concept, it is 

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necessary to grasp the fact that we Hve, move and have our 
being in two distinct worlds. The original world out of 
which we sprang, and in which we are still rooted and 
immersed, as a Lotus growing from the bottom of a deep 
lake, is the world of spiritual creative action. It is the inner 
world, and physically expressed as that part of us dominated 
by the sub-conscious mind, or soul. The other, newer world, 
is created out from this inner world, and, though intimately 
connected with it, is, nevertheless, in a sense independent. 

We have a miniature picture of this in the phenomenon 
that attaches to the growth and division of the simple cell. 
In the center of the cell there is a space called the Attractive 
Sphere. This is that vacuum, or space filled with the Holy \ 
Breath or Spirit, which from its solar origin is called a Sol, or 
Soul, a spark from the Great Divine Center of Being, and 
which in the multi-cellular organism, makes up the greater 
Soul, or feeling-center, of man. 

Let us review this wonderful phenomenon: The central 
attractive sphere divides, forming two poles, or new centers 
of energy, and the cell thereafter goes through a most 
remarkable series of changes. The protoplasmic substance 
of the cell arranges itself particle by particle about the two 
newly formed centers, one going in one direction, another 
in another, as if guided by an unerring, irresistible influence, 
until the so-called " mother-cell " is transformed into two 
" daughter-cells." 

It is right here, at the very beginning of organic life- 
expression that we note the operation of the great primal law 
of SEX, which is instrumental in causing all subsequent 
differentiation into forms and species, being the fundamental 
cause of all growth, expansion, evolution and unfoldment in 
the natural world. 

At the very base of manifestation there appears to be but 
one creative power, that is to say, all potentiality is centered 

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in one sphere, or organism, termed the Maternal, or as it has 
come to be generally expressed, " matter " {mater, or 
mother). Upon the great Mother-Ocean, or ocean of 
original matter, forever moves the Spirit of Light, and there 
we are, back to the " beginning " of creation. It is this 
Spirit of Light, impregnating and entering into coalition 
with the Essence of Matter — the primal and eternal 
sexual phenomenon — that brings life into its variously 
manifested forms. The power of either Spirit or Matter is 
negative and inert until both are conjoined. These, then, 
are the real ELOHIM, or " gods," which create the earth 
and the heavens, and all that in them is. 

So long as the organic life-expression remains uni-cellular, 
we find the two sexual potencies merged in the one form, 
with powers of reproduction. This is called the state or 
condition of hermaphroditism, and the subsequent birth of 
other cells from this one " mother-cell " is termed partheno- 
genetic, or virginal-bearing. The subsequent separation of 
the two creative, sexual potencies into individual cells or 
spheres, is done, no doubt, to accomplish the more rapid, 
and effectual evolution of the species. 

But, while it might appear that the physical evolution of 
the sexual elements is the end or object of this separa- 
tion, yet there is a higher object apparent in the unfold- 
ment of the individual as such. For, just as the cells 
divide off from each other into male and female elements, 
so this creative. Spiritual Potency, which originally con- 
joined with the Water to produce the primal protoplasmic 
substance of formal life, also divides itself, separates itself, 
from the Mother-Sphere, and creates from the purified 
Substance of that sphere a body for itseK, so that in 
each individual body, from the lowest to the highest 
type, there is manifested the very same, or similar, phe- 
nomenon that we observe in the primal cell itself — the 

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phenomenon of Polarity. Through this, there is created out 
from the original sphere of being a New Sphere known as 
** Consciousness," or Mind, which is to be regarded as the 
last, legitimate offspring of the original Mother Being, 
overshadowed, infused and impregnated by the Spirit — 
this " mother " still and forever abiding with her offspring 
as the inmost vital principle of the individual life-expression 
— the Soul of Man, 

It is very essential to get a clear concept of the true 
relation existing between these two grand divisions of our 
being, the Mind and the Soul, which commonly are very 
much confused, in order to come into an understanding of 
life, and know ourselves as we are, and for what we are. 

While it is impossible to describe Mind in words, yet we 
may, through reason, come to understand something re- 
garding its nature and its relation to our physical being. We 
are accustomed to look upon Mind as the highest human 
unfoldment, the flower of the great Life-Tree, but this 
really is true only from the standpoint of human con- 
sciousness. The brain, being in direct communication with 
the outer world, reflects, by means of the sense organs, all 
external images, and thereby inaugurates the phenomena 
which we know as thought, mentation, memory — the 
activity and content of Mind. 

But there is Something at the very center of being which, 
beginning its manifestation with the fusion of the two germ- 
cells, creates the wonderful organism cell by cell, and con- 
tinues as its actuating principle throughout the subsequent 
life of the individual. This central, directive power, the 
Divine Archeus, builder, creator, lod, is potentially supreme. 
Though entirely hidden from consciousness, and in a great 
measure ignored by the thinking mind, it steadily, cease- 
lessly, tirelessly continues its action throughout life. All the 
so-called sub-conscious activities, the mechanical, automatic, 

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creative, sustaining powers of the body belong to, and are 
wholly under control of, this unseen potentiality. 

As an example and type of its activity, take the human 
heart, which begins pulsating in the unformed embryo 
almost before it is enclothed with visible substance and con- 
tinues without cessation the same action all through life. 
In like manner there is established and carried on through- 
out the entire organism the most complicated functional 
activity. 

This activity is in no way akin to intellection, and hence 
cannot be called " mind." The mind proper perceives, 
thinks, wills, acts, through a certain apparatus, the brain, 
which is imder, or appears to be under, its special control — 
a control, however, acquired by and through the mediation 
of this same supreme, central potentiality, the Soul — but 
the mind has normally no knowledge or command whatever 
of that wonderful mechanism within, which, independently 
of itself, and everything else so far as the mind knows, main- 
tains and operates in all perfection the greater part of the 
vital, bodily functions. 

The mind has gone far astray in arrogating to itself powers 
which it does not really. possess, at the same time ignoring 
or overlooking the real source of such power as it does pos- 
sess. The stupendous eflOiorescence of egoism which has 
blossomed forth in these latter decades under the general 
designation of " New Thought " or " Mental Science " is 
the best proof and illustration of this fact. The mind has by 
auto-suggestion come to imagine itself to be all and chief, 
when, in truth, it is only a part — the lesser part — of the 
Great Being — the SOUL POWER within, to which it is 
ever subordinate. 

It is easy to understand this if we but compare the activi- 
ties of these two departments of our being. That the Soul 
is omnipotent, perfect and immortal, is to be seen by its 

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activity — its works — from the very inception of life on to 
the close. As before stated, it never ceases, never tires, 
and, it may be added, normally never errs. Of the things it 
does, and the marvelous operations it performs, the mind 
stands simply as an observer and can do no more than peer 
out through its crystalline lenses as it does on other natural, 
external phenomena. It has, indeed, power to observe — to 
classify, compare, reason and form ideas concerning the 
meaning of what it observes — but it has no power to 
actually produce one of these slightest acts or operations of 
the inner Soul. In truth, it is dependent on the Soul itself 
for its own conscious existence, as much so as the flame 
upon the oil within the lamp. 

Looking out into nature and the universe, we perceive the 
sun to be the center and origin of all things terrestrial. Life 
proceeds from the sun and is sustained by the emanation of 
solar energy. The sun, or sol, in the great macrocosm, earth, 
has its miniature sun, or soul, in the microcosm, man. From 
this lesser sun-center, which is ever in direct connection 
with the great universal Sun-Center, emanates all light, 
life, intelligence, activity, growth — all action both phe- 
nomenal and noumenal of which we are conscious. 

Mind, then, should be looked upon as a function of the 
Soul — one of the poles of its being. It may be appropriately 
called the " son of the sun," the offspring of the Eternal 
Power. Jesus said, " I and my Father are one." In the 
Scriptures the soul is referred to as the " Father," and the 
mind as the " Son." It is the separation of the Son from the 
Father — its incarnation into earthly, sensual experience — 
that constitutes the " fall." The Son (mind) descends into 
" evil," becoming personified as the " D-evil," which was 
originally Lucifer, the " light-bearer," the bright Morning 
Star that " fell from heaven." It ascends again as Christ 
to the Father (Soul), bringing home the riches of its earthly 

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experience. As the Scriptures declare, " He that descended 
is the same also as he that ascendeth." Christ, then, 
mentally considered, is the " reformed " Devil and the 
human mind is the Prodigal Son that goes out to gain 
experience, returning at last to the Father. Only when the 
reunion between the two has been effected is the con- 
sciousness of heaven realized. 

Heaven is not a place, though mental illusion of fancy has 
so pictured it. Heaven is a condition, as realizable here as 
elsewhere, and probably better realized here than anywhere. 
The subject of spiritual post-mortem states and of ghostly 
doings may be extremely interesting from a speculative 
standpoint, and undoubtedly has its use in mental unfold- 
ment, but it has no place in a scientific treatise on earth life, 
for it solves none of its many mysteries. 

Where do I think we are going when we die.^^ Why should 
we necessarily have to be " going " anywhere? Whatever 
beliefs we may entertain concerning the state after death, 
we have no actual knowledge thereof, and no way as yet of 
obtaining it. What I do believe and know to be possible is 
that, with sufficient knowledge and enlightenment, man will 
be able to remain as he. is right here on this planet, which, 
though at the present time it may seem somewhat of a " hell," 
and a place many people desire to escape from, may, never- 
theless, be transformed into a veritable heaven, such as no 
one would care to leave and take chances on the imknown 
hereafter. That the belief in Physical Immortalization is 
not merely a fancy, or a theory, but that it rests on both 
reason and revelation, I shall proceed to explain and demon- 
strate. 

All our notions of heaven and hell and future states of 
being or consciousness — all proposed schemes to attain these 
states — our entire theology, in fact — rests upon the con- 
cept we have of one little word with a big import, namely, 

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SIN. What is sin? How came such a thing as sin into the 
world? It is evident that there is no " sin " until the awaken- 
ing of consciousness, nay, until the development of eon- 
science. The minerals, vegetables and animals do not " sin.'* 
Man is the first, last and only " sinner " in creation, and 
why? 

Sin is the conscious revolt of the pure soul against the 
transgressions of the unregenerate mind. It is the soul's 
voice of protest against voluntary infractions of the inherent 
laws of being, which the soul understands but which it 
could never communicate to the mind until it had developed 
that inner ear, conscience, through a long experience of 
feeling — pain and pleasure. But even at the present stage 
of human development this " ear " is usually very dull of 
hearing and frequently deaf. The soul warns the mind 
through feeling, and rewards and punishes according as the 
warning is heeded or disregarded. It is the soul that thus 
makes the mind conscious of the conditions of good and 
evil — " heaven and hell." 

Death, when it occurs, is but the enforced withdrawal of 
the pure soul from the vehicle of an imperfect body, made 
untenable by long continued, wilful abuses and infractions 
of Divine Law instigated and perpetrated by the Devil- 
Mind. 

The soul has always within itself the capacity of conferring 
immortality upon this body and will do this whenever the 
mind becomes perfectly attuned to the voice of the soul and 
obedient to its diction. Hitherto in its blind ignorance the 
mind has continued to destroy itself forcing the soul to 
build again and again new bodies for its expression. 



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CHAPTER VI 

THE GARDEN OF THE GODS 

" Let us make Man in our Image after our Likeness, So the 
Elohim created Man in their own Image, in the Image of the 
Elohim created THEY TEEMr 

This, apparently, is the crowning work of creation — the 
making of man in the image of his maker — a work far from 
complete, but one which is going steadily forward in the 
evolution of the race. 

There are apparently two distinct accounts of man's 
creation in Genesis, a fact which has caused no end of 
theological controversy. Some believe these two accounts 
to be of different origin and authorship, having been acci- 
dentally brought together and juxtaposed as they are by the 
compilers of the Biblical records. But the real truth is this: 
The first account is simply a revelation of the ideal creation, 
the creation as it will be when finished — the creation now 
going forward in the race. The second account represents 
the real creation or evolution of man as the human animal, 
taking him at the time when human consciousness awoke 
suflficiently to recognize evil and differentiate it from good, 
which was, as has been explained, but the voice of the 
awakening Soul speaking and being apprehended. 

Is there anyone living at the present time who believes 
this narrative of the Garden of Eden, and the creation of 
Adam and Eve to be literally true? Even Origen, the 
early Christian Father, understood it as an allegory. He 
says : " Where can we find a mind so foolish as to suppose 

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that God acted like a common husbandman, and planted a 
paradise in the Garden of Eden, towards the East; and 
placed in it a Tree of Life, visible and palpable, so that one 
tasting of the fruit by the bodily teeth obtained life? And 
again that one was a partaker of good and evil by masti- 
cating that which was taken from the tree? And if God is 
said to walk in paradise in the evening, and Adam to hide 
himself under a tree, I do not suppose that anyone doubts 
that these things figuratively indicate certain mysteries, the 
history having taken place in appearance and not literally." 
I It is plainly to be seen that the " garden " in this narrative 
symbols the human body, and that the " trees " represent 
certain physical functions. Man is made to understand the 
nature of sin through eating of these " trees," or at least one 
of them, and is driven from the " garden " to gain experience 
in order to overcome sin. What sin? 

In the ideal creation, man is given every Tree for suste- 
nance, while in the real creation he is forbidden to eat of a 
certain Tree in the Midst of the Garden, — the tree desig- 
nated as " the Tree of the Kiiowledge of Good and Evil." 

After Adam, it required the creation of two more actors, 
a Woman and a Snake, to complete the dramatis personce so 
that the play might proceed. The Serpent, which, of course, 
is Desire, induces the Woman to eat of the forbidden fruit, 
and she, liking the taste of it, leads the man to partake, and 
this act of disobedience to the Divine Command causes the 
" fall " of man and his expulsion from Eden — a tragedy by 
no means confined to Mythical Eden but enacted through- 
out the world a hundred times a day. 

The nature of this transgression, and incidentally of the 
forbidden fruit itself, is very plain to be seen when we con- 
sider the consequences to the typal pair; the first being 
shame, the consciousness of being naked, the second being 
conception, generation and birth. 

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The " curse " pronounced upon Eve defines the nature of 
sin — all sin! " In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children! " 
Thus, for the eating of the Tree of Generation, man is 
accursed from the beginning and goes forth from the ideal 
conditions of ease, abundance and life, to labor, poverty 
and death. Generation is the one and only sin from the 
foundation, and the whole of life's experience — the whole of 
evolution — is for the one object of overcoming this sin, and 
regaining, or attaining paradise through Regeneration. 

And this mighty fact, and the possibility of its accom- 
plishment, is written in plain words right in the same 
narrative describing the ignominious " fall." Is it because 
the human mind, in its degenerate or fallen state, sees only 
evil that it has for so many ages failed to read the prophecy 
of man's restoration, or to believe in the possibility of its 
fulfillment? 



CHAPTER VII 

THE TREE OF LIFE 

" And the Lord God said. Behold the Man is become as one 
of Us, to know Good and Evil,'' 

How did he become " as one of us " — that is, as one of the 
gods? Plainly through his disobedience, or error, in eating 
of the Tree of Generation. He had, of course, first to " eat " 
of generation in order to evolve, and it was necessary that 
he be kept in ignorance of his power to regenerate imtil 
such a time as the soul had created a body perfectly fitted 
for its perpetual indwelling. Until such time arrives, man 
abides in the illusion of sense, ignorant of the higher truth of 
life, his ignorance being conditioned on his incapacity to 
realize the truth through positive demonstration. 

But Hsten carefully to this wonderful statement, itself a 
key to the coming possibility of immortality in the race: 

" And Now, Lest He Put Forth His Hand And Take 
ALSO Of The Tree Of Life And EAT AND LIVE FOR- 
EVER: Therefore The Lord God Sent Them Forth From 
Edenr 

According to this statement, man actually possesses the 
Tree of Life, and has power to " put forth his hand " and 
reach it. And if he does this, he will have every attribute of 
divinity — he will not only know " good from evil," but he 
will realize immortal consciousness, he will " live forever,^'* — 
a god in the likeness of the Elohim, his creator! 

For it is evident if Adam possessed this " Tree " his 
descendants must also possess it, and the fact that it has 

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never yet been partaken of is simply due to the inherent 
ignorance of the race respecting it — an ignorance which 
has been transmitted from " Adam " down to the present 
time! 

What is the Tree of Life? That life in all ages and among 
many peoples has been compared to the tree is no doubt due 
to the fact that of all living organisms it exhibits the greatest 
vitaUty and longevity. There are trees, giant sequoias, 
standing today on this continent that are from one to four 
thousand years old, some of them it is believed antedating 
the reputed creation of Adam. 

The Greeks pictured the Microbiats, a race of primeval 
men, who lived in the Tree of Life in the Garden of Hes- 
perides. A similar myth is found among the Persians, in 
which the dead even were brought to life by the juices of 
this tree. In the Norse Legend we have the tree, Yggdrasil, 
whose roots run down into the Well of Mimer, the waters of 
which confer immortality. The inhabitants of Borneo told 
of a tree growing in their paradise whose sap imparted a 
wonderful life-force. 

We find these mythical trees, like that of Yggdrasil, often 
connected with mythic fountains, springs or rivers, the 
waters of which contain immortalizing potencies; in fact, 
the two symbols, the Tree and the Water, appear to merge 
into one another, and there is to be observed a distinct 
evolution of the idea of the immortal tree into that of im- 
mortal waters. In the middle ages we find a strong, current 
belief in the " Spring of Youth." Ponce de Leon hunted for 
such a spring in Florida, guided by the tales of the Indians, 
who claimed to know of the existence of such a spring. 
About this time, we find the idea assuming a more scientific 
phase in the development of Hermetic Science, exemplified 
in the experiments of the early Alchemists, a number of 
whom there is evidence to believe actually discovered the 

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Philosopher's Stone, or " Water of the Wise," as it was 
sometimes called, which, from all accounts, came the nearest 
to being an universal remedy for all diseases of anything 
ever discovered. The science of Alchemy, the mother of 
modern chemistry, foreshadows the science of Regeneration, 
inasmuch as it reveals the natural principles upon which 
this science is based. 

There is no doubt, whatever, but that the " Trees " in the 
fabled " Garden of Eden," and all other similar " Trees of 
Life," are based upon certain occult physiological facts or 
phenomena. We must not, however, expect that a symbol- 
ism formulated as this must have been by people having 
little or no such scientific knowledge of the human organism 
as we possess today, will do more than follow the broadest 
outlines. It is truly remarkable, and affords positive evi- 
dence of the powers of inspiration, that such minds could 
have gained the understanding of this abstruse subject 
which their writings show that they possessed. Let us 
bring this ancient Tree Symbolism down to actual life, and 
discover if possible what it really means. 

If we dissect out the vascular system of man, taking the 
heart as the root, the aorta as the trunk, and the various 
ramifications of arteries, veins and capillaries as the limbs 
and branches, we have a very perfect likeness or representa- 
tion of a tree. This we will call the " Heart Tree." Again, 
if we dissect out the nervous system, with the brain as the 
root, the spinal chord as the trunk, and the various sensory 
and motor nerves spreading in every direction, we have a 
very perfect representation of another tree, which we will 
call the " Brain Tree." 

If we assume these as the two trees planted in " Eden," 
the question then to be decided is, which of them should be 
called the Tree of Life? And which the Tree of Good and 
Evil? The Tree of Life is the Heart-Tree, the life and growth 

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of which is directly under control of the Soul of man. It is 
the seat and source of all vital phenomena, is, in truth, 
literally a " tree of life." It is not the tree, however, but the 
sap of the tree, or blood, which sustains this life. And here 
we see how the tree-symbol at once merges into the water- 
symbol. 

On the other hand, the Tree with its roots in the brain is 
controlled by the Mind of man, and is actually the " Tree of 
Kaowledge," for it feels with its sentient nerves, thus 
acquiring the sense of " good and evil," at the same time 
transmitting through its motory nerves volitions to various 
organs and gaining a certain control of them, called Will. 

These two Trees have their distinct and specific fruitages 
in the " midst of the garden," both of which are within 
reach of the " hand," or the will of man. The real fruitage 
of the " Tree of Life " is a mystery — it is the ancient 
" SODf" or mystery, " hid from the foundation; " but the 
fruitage of the other tree, of which Adam and Eve actually 
partook, is well enough known as generation, physically ex- 
pressed in that culminating eiffort, or " fruit," of the Brain- 
Tree, the perfected germ-cells — the spermatozoa of man 
and the ova of woman. 

This expression of the germ-cell is the highest possible 
one on the present plane of generation. The germ-cells 
are the highest type of cell yet produced, and are as 
nearly " immortal " in their construction as a cell in the 
present state of physical development of the human body 
could be. They have the power to resist parasitical in- 
vasions, are not destroyed like the common body-cells by 
" phagocytes," but live on, even for several days after the 
death of the individual. When man understands how to 
" put forth his hand and eat " also of the fruit of the Tree of 
Life, which matures daily in his own garden, he will be able 
to transform every cell of his body into a higher type of cell, 

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a type superior to the germ-cells themselves, rendering the 
whole impervious to those destructive and disintegrating 
conditions, which now result in disease and death, creating 
a body which will never grow sick or enfeebled or old. 



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MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 

" This is now Bone of my Bones, and Flesh of my Flesh; 
she shall be called WOMAN because she was taken out of Man, 
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall 
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be ONE FLESH " 

Adam, according to the narrative, obtained his wife in a 
most unique manner — differently by far than a wife has 
ever been obtained since. And while there does not appear to 
have been any " ceremony " uniting them, yet they are 
declared to be " of one flesh," and this is taken as the type 
of the ideal marriage, though just what is meant by being 
of one flesh no one seems to have considered. 

What sort of " woman " was this that was made from the 
" bone of man? " Is it possible that any woman was ever 
made, or could be made, in this way? We must assume 
that God has never done anything cognizable by man that 
man himself cannot do; in other words, God is revealed to 
man only through man's own conception, so that which 
" God did " is either what man has accomplished or con- 
ceived as possible of accomplishment. 

The great revelation coming from the SUN-CENTER is 
this : When man learns to locate the " Tree of Life," and 
discovers the method of eating its fruit, then, and only 
then, will he be able to win, to create for himself, a literal 
Eve, one who will actually be made of the substance of his 
own bones, and will thus be of the same flesh. It is to such 
a pair that the commandment was given " to increase and 

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multiply and replenish the earth (body) " — not with visible 
offspring, for that was never intended in the ideal creation 
of man, but with immortal entities, living beings, souls 
dwelling in the " many mansions " of the Father-Soul, 
meaning the regenerate cells of the human body, each of 
which is to be inhabited by the " Son of Man " — a little 
" sol " or sun — all deathless as the Great Over-Soul from 
which they originate, and in which they live, move and have 
their immortal being. 

Is all this so very mysterious? I shall endeavor to make 
it plain. Jesus says, " For in the Resurrection they neither 
marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of 
God in heaven." How are we to interpret this? 

The word " man " means etymologically the same as 
" mind." Man is distinguished from the lower types prin- 
cipally by the greater development of his mind. Man's 
whole conscious existence may be said to be mental. He 
lives very little in the spiritual, more in the physical, but 
mostly in the mental. All the laws which man makes for 
his own government are mental laws, derived from, and 
adapted to the purely selfish demands of the senses. 

The mind is not able to perceive or understand the law of 
God, expressed through nature, and thus it creates for itself 
arbitrary rules, termed laws, which are very often antago- 
nistic to the fundamental laws of nature, or God. 

A good illustration of this is afforded in the man-made 
laws relating to marriage, or the physical union of the sexes. 
The entire code of laws and customs (custom is the mother of 
law) relative to marriage is at variance with the laws of God, 
when viewed in the LIGHT OF LIFE. 

The law of man recognizes marriage simply as an institu- 
tion established to facilitate the procreation of the species. 
In the eyes of the law, which harks back to savagery, woman 
is regarded as the chattel of man. The few rights and 

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privileges which she has today have been fought for and won 
from man grudgingly. Woman is yet a long ways from being 
equal with man in the eyes of the law. The privileges which 
she does enjoy are due to her personality and the hold that 
she is able to maintain on man's selfish affections, based to 
some extent on his recognition of her superior qualities; but 
the law holds her as a piece of property, and man has a legal 
right to treat her as such. If he does not enforce his right, 
it is because of a certain inherent chivalry, the awakening 
in his heart of the sentiment of true love and devotion. 

The human law relating to marriage does not recognize 
the supreme law of LOVE, not at all. With an iron hand it 
manacles together two people of opposite nature and tem- 
perament, every fiber of whose beings is at continual war- 
fare each with the other, both in time coming to loathe and 
abhor the relationship in which they are compelled to live. 
But the law says to them grimly. In that relation you have 
promised to abide " till death do you part," and there is no 
escape. Obey, and propagate! 

The law does not take into consideration the curse that 
such a relation enforces upon the children — those that are 
to form the coming society — breeding into them resent- 
ment, malice, deceit, cruelty and criminality. It does not 
see that all its vast machinery of war — its armaments and 
battleships — is made necessary because of the spirit of 
murder and rapine thus engendered in the human race. It 
does not perceive that all its laws for the repression' of crime 
— its judiciary, its courts, its police, its jails and prisons, 
nay more, its almshouses and asylums, are made necessary 
because of an ill-begotten progeny, the legitimate result of 
this savage, iron-clad custom of coercive cohabitation, called 
marriage. 

You say the law has a remedy for ill-assorted marriages in 
divorce. Yes, divorce is a remedy, but one almost worse than 

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the disease. Divorce is so hedged in with difficulties, both 
legal and social, that the majority of the " fatally wedded " 
prefer to remain in their bondage, onerous and obnoxious 
though it be, to the public notoriety and social ostracism 
which divorce entails. 

Divorce cannot be decently obtained, because a mutual 
agreement by the parties to separate invalidates the action 
in the eyes of the law. The character of one party must be 
shown to be defective, consequently it must be assailed and 
besmirched by the other, which leads to constant eva- 
sion and perjury, engendering hatred and frequently 
crime. 

The party most entitled under the laws of nature and God 
to freedom from an unbearable marital relation, the nature 
of which it might be impossible to " show " to a judge or 
jury, no witnesses being available, is frequently unable to 
make a case against the offender, who, though in private life 
he be a tyrant or she a shrew, will pose as a paragon of 
virtue and amiability in order to gain public sympathy and 
support. 

Such a one, being the alleged " injured party," may 
refuse divorce for mean or mercenary motives, and go on 
hounding an innocent and worthy party into his or her 
grave. This vengeful disposition betokens a small, narrow 
mind, devoid of both heart and soul, and belongs only to 
those on the lowest, primitive plane. Women as a rule are 
more implacable than men under these circumstances, 
because on this plane they are far more selfish and un- 
reasoning. 

The social law, the law of generation, is largely responsible 
for this condition of things, since it has for centuries kept 
woman in a state of complete dependence upon man, and 
she has been educated to believe that she has to look to him 
for her support. In the Regeneration, woman becomes as 

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independent as man. They both are independent and at the 
same time interdependent. 

Divorce should be made exactly as easy as marriage, and 
either party should have the right to annul the compact, 
without inconvenience, notoriety or disgrace. Nothing 
short of this is consistent with justice, liberty and right. Yet, 
at the present time, all possible pressure, conventional, 
ecclesiastical and legal, is brought to bear to make the mar- 
riage hold. The Catholic church forbids divorce, and other 
churches look upon it as a " growing menace " to society. 
The more fanatical on this subject are for the establishment 
of a national divorce law, which, if it ever comes, will, we may 
be sure, as good as seal the doom of those in marital bondage. 

The real truth is, mankind is unable to keep pace mentally 
with its own evolution, or to understand the trend of it. 
The birth of the sentiment of romantic love and affection in 
the race, which is of comparatively recent date, and confined 
wholly to the civilized nations, and its normal sequence, 
monogamic marriage, means, did we but rightly interpret 
it, the beginning of the end of generation. 

When two souls are advanced to the point where they are 
irresistibly drawn together by love and recognize therein 
the true law of affinity, that in itself marks for them the end 
of the era of procreation, and the beginning of an era of 
re-creation. If, under those conditions, they have not 
already gained the wisdom to understand the leadings of the 
higher law of Love, and again fall into generation, they are 
as surely accursed for it, and as surely driven from Eden, 
as our primal progenitors. 

That generation per se has no legitimate part or place in 
the monogamic relationship, is quite demonstrable. In 
fact, as we may observe, such relationship on the generative 
plane exists, save in exceptional instances, in name only. 

We as a nation affect to abhor polygamy, and the instinct 

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which leads us to do this is right, but how can we remain 
blind to the fact that the practice of generation in our so- 
called monogamic life by its entailment of physical suiffering 
not only embitters and shortens life, but is the very thing 
that noLOst engenders promiscuity — the exact opposite of the 
IDEAL struggling to establish itself, and which we imagine 
will be established through enforced monogamy? 

Which is preferable in an advanced state of society, 
polygamy or promiscuity? Free from prejudice, it takes but 
little argument to decide. Compare the morals of Salt Lake 
City today, after the " invasion and conquest of the Gen- 
tiles," with what they were under the reign of Brigham 
Young. By morals here I mean what is commonly meant, 
fidelity to the marriage vow. Under the Mormon rule Salt 
Lake City was a clean town, and what is it now? The same 
as every other city. Go into the tenderloin districts of the 
eastern cities, or the segregation camps of the West, and 
note what goes on there, and then dare to tell me that we 
live under a " monogamic system," that is anything more 
than a name and a pretense! 

Polygamy, as established by the Hebrews, and as practised 
by nearly every ancient nation, is the natural, legitimate 
system for a society dependent upon generation. More 
children, and probably better children, can be produced 
in that way — " more food for cannon or voters for fran- 
chises! " There was a time when polygamy was an economic 
necessity. 

And the sentiment which now-a-days in this more en- 
lightened age revolts against this system is not founded on a 
consideration of the welfare of the offspring, but proceeds 
from an unfolding intuition of the ideal monogamic relation- 
ship — an ideal attainable only in the Regeneration. 

It is for this, and this alone, that the voice of Love speaks 
through the Soul of Woman to the Soul of Man, which hears 

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and understands, but as yet, in this disordered age, only 
indistinctly, because the mind, with its ^owth of prejudices 
and false beliefs, rooted firmly in the past, refuses to allow 
the Light of the Soul to pierce the jungle, and resents all 
attempts to blaze a trail through its thickets. 

Look at it as we may, the whole of life's effort appears to 
be to subdue this devil-mind of ours and bring it into sub- 
jection and harmony with the God-Soul. And this can only 
be brought about in all perfection when the two sexes become 
united and the twain become one flesh — when living rapport 
is established between the bodies of men and women, and 
the soul of each responds to the other as perfect chords on a 
perfectly attuned instrument. And this is not more senti- 
mental than scientific — not more poetic than possible. 

In Heaven they are ** neither married nor given in mar- 
riage " because that state of heavenly consciousness is 
attainable only through the union of the sexes, the perfected 
bi-unity. There is no " giving in marriage " here, because 
those who reach such a heaven are already married in the 
truest, divinest sense. In no other way can this heaven be 
reached! " What God hath joined together, let not 
MAN PUT asunder! " Man cannot put such asunder. 

Let us take a scientific view of this question. In the 
separation of the sexes of any species, which as we have 
seen is for the better and more rapid development of the 
individual, the seed-potencies are likewise separated. This 
separation begins in the vegetable and continues up along 
the line to man. 

It is customary to speak of the " seed of man," but really 
man possesses no such thing as seed, no more does woman. 
What he does possess is a positive germ, the spermatazoon, 
which, when united under certain conditions to the negative 
germ of the female, the ovum, produces the real seed, the 
seed of generation, and which, like any fertilized germ-cell or 

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egg, may thereafter develop into an individual of the same 
species. 

But, in all the process of generation, there is nothing 
scientifically akin to the ideal marriage, except the fusion of 
the two germ-cells, an action which, in its relation to the 
co-operating individuals, means rather separation than 
union. 

There is nothing whatever in the act of generation 
whereby the woman can be said to become of the " flesh and 
bone" of man. In fact, the idea of marriage as it exists in the 
world today is so utterly different from the model marriage in 
Eden as to have forced the popular belief that the scriptural 
account of the latter can be nothing more than pure fable, 
with perhaps some unknown mystical meaning. 

Does anyone living dream of the possibility of a marriage 
where God actually joins, and where man is unable to put 
asunder? It is at once apparent that the discussion and 
solution of this question scientifically is bound to have the 
most momentous and far-reaching consequences. Here is 
a truth indeed, which, like the Word of God, is " sharper 
than a two-edged sword, dividing asunder even the Soul and 
Spirit " — dividing society into factions. It is at once a 
sword of separation and a shield of defence, and while its 
going forth may cause social rebellion and moral earth- 
quakes, shaking down mouldering structures and worm- 
eaten institutions, it will eventually re-construct society, 
and lay foundations in Zion for a better race! 

Generation has been called a sin. It is a sin, not because 
it operates to bring children, visible offspring, into manifes- 
tation, but because it fails to come up to the standard of the 
ideal — a standard plainly revealed in Genesis. We may 
truly say that " all is good," sin being but a negative term, 
a relative condition. Generation is likewise good, but not 
the best attainable. 

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The ideal union of the sexes, when they are prepared for 
it, is for a purpose vastly removed from that of propagation, 
this purpose being, in a word, the regeneration of their own 
bodies^ which in the process become as one body. It means 
the inter-knitting of individual affections and potencies — 
each the natural complement of the other — and a con- 
sequent blending of the life-forces to the extent that the 
twain become one and inseparable. And this, when attained, 
means Immortality in the Flesh! 

It goes without saying that such a union is practically 
unknown at the present time, that is, in the Western world. 
People are united only in form, by a ceremony that is practi- 
cally meaningless — one of the last surviving relics of the 
union of church and state — and, ignorant of the knowledge 
of the LIGHT OF LIFE, they cannot be said to be wedded 
in any true, or scientific, sense. 

But we may leave the word " marriage " to express just 
what it does express. The word itseK occultly signifies 
" death " (from mar^ something marred — Mars, the de- 
stroyer) . At the same time we recognize that the destructive 
force of Mars (or marriage, if you will) is capable of being 
converted, with understanding, into the most powerful 
reconstructive agency the world has ever known. 

Do not therefore imagine from what has been said that I 
would destroy the institution of marriage as it exists. Far 
from it. It is right in its place. It is the grandest institution 
on earth, and the evolution that has been effected through 
it from promiscuity, polygamy, polyandry, etc., to the ideal 
of monogamy leads up to the highest possible realizations 
in the future of the race, when at last it comes into the true 
Light. Therefore, we may consider that all the church has 
blindly taught concerning marriage, even including the ban 
it places on divorce, is fundamentally scientific and based 
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men and women will perceive only when they arrive at the 
higher plane of Regeneration, coming then under a New 
Law. 

In order to progress sanely towards this understanding, one 
must at the outset disabuse the mind of an idea very much 
ingrained into popular thought today — one of the inherited 
prejudices and superstitions — and that is that Regenera- 
tion is a purely mental or spiritual process, depending either 
on some voluntary attitude of the mind, or on some super- 
natural interposition — a metaphysical efflux of some sort 
of which any single individual may become the recipient. 

The fact is, physical regeneration, like physical generation, 
is fundamentally a physical action, as far as the part which 
man voluntarily plays in it, as much so as the sowing of seed 
in th,e ground. In either case, the actor has comparatively 
little part to play in the sequential phenomena — not much 
more, so to speak, than the wind which carries the seed 
from the calyx to the earth. Man is mentally and physically 
the agent to establish or effect certain conditions necessary 
to the production of the phenomena, that is all — nature 
does the rest. 

Regeneration absolutely demands the co-operation of two 
individuals of opposite sex — a man and a woman — whose 
success in the work individually and unitedly will be just in 
proportion to the degree of harmony existing, or that can 
be caused to exist, between them. Harmony is a science 
like the rest. The physical cannot be harmonious unless the 
mental and spiritual natures be also in accord. The converse 
is equally true: no mental or spiritual harmony can obtain if 
the physical natures be not in accord. This condition of 
harmony is the very ideal in the union of the sexes, even on 
the generative plane of life. It is demanded by the unborn 
child, who, we say, has a right to be well horn. It is still 
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unless the sexes be not in accord on all planes, especially on 
the physical plane, no great progress is possible. 

In the broadest sense, regeneration means simply re- 
newal of the forces of the individual life, as opposed to 
generation, or propagation, of other lives of the same species. 
Thus, physiologically considered, the body of man is being 
** regenerated " daily, hourly, momentarily, by the influx of 
pure blood through which the cells of the tissues are nour- 
ished. The principle of regeneration thus goes on con- 
tinuously in the birth and re-birth of the ceils themselves. 
Without the operation of this regenerative principle in the 
body, no one could exist for an hour. The real problem, then, 
to be solved is to find a way to maintain this natural re- 
generative impulse and process as in youth, which would 
mean the prolongation of the youthful condition and state. 
To this, something more will then be added. 



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CHAPTER IX 

THE RATIONALE OF REGENERATION 

" Man that is born of Woman is of few days and full of 
trouble." 

This passage of scripture, taken from the soliloquy of 
Job, is often quoted at funerals as a mournful testimony to 
the inevitableness of death, but the inner significance of the 
text is quite overlooked: " man that is born ofwoman,'^ born 
as in ordinary generation — such a man is, to be sure, fated 
to go the way of the earth. 

But even Job had his doubts that this fate was irremedi- 
able, for he looks at the tree, and he says, " There is hope of a 
tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the 
tender branch thereof will not cease," and he cries out in 
anguish, in words that have echoed unanswered adown the 
ages, " If a man die, shall he live again? " Job nearly per- 
ceives the regenerative principle in nature when he says of 
the tree, " Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, 
and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet, through the 
scent of water, it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a 
plant." 

It is not till we come to the advent of the Christ that we 
find the hopes and prophecies of all the ages fulfilled in the 
revelation of the truth itself. Jesus says that a man can be 
reborn, and he tells the way in which it may be accomplished. 
In the well-known dialogue between Jesus and Nicodemus, 
the latter asks the question, " How can a man be born when 

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he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb and be born 
again? " And Jesus, tacitly assenting, proceeds to suggest 
the modus operandi: " Except a man be born OF WATER 
AND OF THE SPIRIT he cannot enter into the king- 
dom OF God." 

How is it that the real significance of this tremendous 
statement has never dawned upon the human mind? Where 
is the " Kingdom of God? " Jesus himself declares, "It is 
within you! " Then why has man so persistently and illog- 
ically continued to locate it in the skies? The Kingdom of 
God is within the body, and a consciousness of it is attainable 
only by a rebirth of the body, and this is effected by natural, 
not supernatural, means — means similar to the first genera- 
tion in which the " Spirit of God moves upon the waters " 
in the womb of the mother to create the foetus. 

In conceiving of this Regeneration as some mystical 
process, sanctified by the rite of baptism, as the church has 
so long taught, the world has lost sight of the most marvelous, 
scientific principle in human life — the principle of physical 
renewal or regeneration through sexual-interaction, for this, 
imquestionably, is the process. It has the seal and sanction 
of the Master, Jesus, here as in many other places to be 
shown. 

To make the meaning very clear, I will quote in this 
connection a passage from Upa Sastra, giving a remarkably 
plain statement of this truth: 

** The process of the world's redemption is a process of 
assimilating earthly planes to the heavenly, and thus 
making all at length heavenly, by communicating a higher 
life from plane to plane downwards. But, astounding as 
it will seem to many, there can be no procession of re- 
demptive life from above, except through sexual com- 
munion; precisely as there can be no procession of natural 
life but through the same means; for natural, spiritual and 

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divine life are but as degrees of intensity or energy in the 
one universal stream. Male and female planes alternate 
from the highest to the lowest plane; that is, from the 
divine center of every form to its outer circumference. 
That the male imparts germs of life to the female which 
result in offspring is well enough known; but other cognate 
facts, because less patent, entirely escape observation. 
The human male may impregnate every molecule in the 
system of the female, without producing visible offspring, 
and a vigorous, womanly wife may produce the same effects 
upon her husband. This may be the case, even when the 
husband and wife are only united as to the life of the body; 
which is the nature of most of the unions in this disordered 
age. But shoxild the subject be one whose organism is a 
continuous succession of planes, whose female associate is 
organized in like manner, and whose interior planes are an 
inseparable unity with hers — the pair being counterparts — 
then there might result alternating processions of life that 
would utterly transcend in redemptive effectiveness all that 
it is possible for men to conceive of. 

"There is no way possible for one man to impart the higher 
life, which is to renovate the race, to another man, or to 
another series of men, but through a wife-medium, the wife 
or concubine of him who imparts, the female offspring of 
him who receives; and thus through sexual interaction must 
living rapport be established throughout the whole network 
of humanity, for the purpose of lifting it from its degrada- 
tion. 

" But why should this be thought unlikely? By the very 
same sexual interaction moral declension and sin became 
established through the weakness of man; surely by a suffi- 
cient accession of strength, to reorganize the weak parts, a 
remedy may be effected by the original mode of action. It 
may be repeated; there is no redemption for man but as 

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the higher Hfe succeeds in forcing its way from plane to 
plane in the shape of human germinal seed." 

It is singular how little either science or religion has done 
towards solving the really great, fundamental questions of 
life. As a matter of fact, they have done nothing but beg 
the question. As Professor Metchnikow observes, " It is a 
surprise to find how little science really knows about death. 
Although death has a preponderating place in religion, 
systems of philosophy, literature and folk-lore, scientific 
works pay little attention to it. This imfortunate fact ex- 
plains, though it may not justify, the bitter attack made on 
science on the grounds that it is occupied with minutiae 
and neglects the great problems of human life, such as 
death." 

Brunetiere criticizes science by saying that " for hundreds 
of years science has promised to better the conditions of 
things in the world, to unveil the mysteries; she has not 
done it. She is powerless to solve the one essential question : 
The origin of man, his rule of conduct, and his ultimate 
destination." 

Both religion and philosophy begin and end in speculation, 
and are little more than meditations on death. Unable to 
find any principle in nature to justify the belief in the possi- 
bility of individual persistence in human form, that inner 
desire to live and the instinctive revulsion against the 
thought of physical death have combined to give birth to a 
hope in continued existence after death, if not of the body, 
which is apparently impossible, then, of that more spiritual 
inner part, the consciousness or soul, or whatever it may be 
that knows itself to be — that thinks and remembers. 

But this hope, when subjected to the light of advanced 
reason, appears without satisfactory foundation, and more 
and more the mind comes to look upon death as a veritable 
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mitigate. The instinctive dread which all creatures have of 
death and the intense desire which all manifest to live, seem 
quite sufficient to prove that death is a physical error, an 
error to be overcome — demonstrated over scientifically. 
For, what is this instinct but the Voice of the Soul endeavor- 
ing to move the mind and stimulate it to seek actively for a 
means by which this gigantic error may be wiped out and 
obliterated? 

Scientists who have studied into this problem of life most 
deeply have not been able to find any valid reason for death. 
Johannes MuUer, the eminent physiologist, shows that in 
living, organic substance there exists no scientific reason 
for dying. The substance of which the body is composed 
is demonstrably imperishable. The forces which combine 
those substances, and maintain them in an organic state are 
equally indestructible. Then what is it that dies? 

The natural organic process consists simply in the con- 
struction and reconstruction of living cells, from an ever- 
lasting and inexhaustible supply of substance. Finally, for 
some unknown reason, the forces cease to act normally, and 
death ensues. This has occurred so imiversally and so per- 
sistently that the mind has naturally come to regard it as 
inevitable, but the time has now arrived in the evolution of 
the race when death is to be regarded as an abnormality, 
and means are to be sought and found to prolong human life 
at will far beyond the present limits, and eventually to any 
desired extent. 

Professor Metchnikow, though an earnest student of this 
subject, was unable to push his investigations far enough to 
reach the vital point, or secret, of life manifestation, and 
succumbed to the general fate of mankind. The theories, 
however, which he has left us, are most interesting, and 
very suggestive of the truth. 

Metchnikow attributed senile degradation and death to 

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the invasion of certain microbes, to which he gave the name 
of "phagocytes." He says: "Human senescence is the 
result of a slow but chronic poisoning of the organism, such 
poisons, if not completely destroyed or eliminated, weaken the 
tissues, the functions of which become altered or enfeebled 
so that, amongst other changes, there is a deposition of 
fatty matter. The phagocytes resist the influence of in- 
vading poisons better than any of the other cells of the body 
and sometimes are stimulated by them." These parasites 
invade the higher organs and gradually absorb the cellular 
substance of which they are composed. They receive 
different names. Those attacking the nerves are called 
" neuronophags," those destroying the coloring in the hair, 
" chromophags," while those invading the bones and caus- 
ing them to disintegrate are the " osteoclasts," etc. 

Another cause of death, according to this same writer, is 
to be found in sclerosis, or hardening of the arterial walls, 
due to deposits of calcareous substances dissolved out of 
the bones by the destructive action of the osteoclasts. Still 
another cause of disease and death is to be found in the 
swarms of deadly microbes infesting the intestinal flora of 
man. 

In seeking for some means to diminish the number and 
destructive power of these various infesting parasites, 
Pasteur hit upon lactic acid, which has proved to be very 
eflScacious in arresting putrescence resulting from bacteria 
in the intestinal tract, and also the action of the deadly 
phagocytes attacking the various organs of the body. 

But, after all his experiments, Metchnikow makes this 
admission: " The bodies of men and higher animals are 
possessed of a complex mechanism which resists the harmful 
action of the bacteria and their poisons; they may bring 
little harm to an organism that has a high power of destruction 
or neutralization of the toxins,'^ 

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I will add as an amendment to this that certain of the 
bacteria inhabiting the body are undoubtedly essential to 
the general economy of the system, as flies are to the kitchen, 
acting as scavengers. So long as conditions remain as they 
are, they are necessary — at least, they are the lesser of two 
evils. 

If the " River of Life," the blood, were pure, and of 
A HIGH LIFE-POTENCY, thcsc microbcs would disappear. 
Paracelsus, the great alchemist, declared the eflficacy of the 
Elixir VitcB to be due to its power in neutralizing the toxins in 
the blood. All diseases are traceable to some impurity, or 
uncongenial substance, in the blood, and nearly the whole 
effort and study of the medical profession today is directed 
to this one end — the purification of the sanguinary life- 
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CHAPTER X 

THE NEW AND LIVING WAY 

" And almost all things are by law purged with blood; and 
toithout the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.'* 

In the religious rites of all people, from the earliest times, 
we find prominent the idea of redemption by blood. Among 
the barbaric, or less civilized nations, human sacrifices were 
offered, and their blood either burned or poured as an 
oblation to appease the wrath or gain the favor of deity. 
The next step, or evolution of the idea, appears in the 
Mosaic dispensation, where we find the sacrifices consisting 
of the blood of bullocks, goats and rams. Finally we have 
what may be called the spiritual efllorescence of the thought 
in the sacrifice of the divine Son of God himself, as a propi- 
tiation to the deity for the sins of the whole world. 

This idea was by no means original with the Hebrews. It 
was, in fact, old at the reputed birth of Christ. Similar 
accounts of the sacrifice of divine personages are to be found 
in the history of several ancient races. The most striking 
instance, perhaps, is that of the Phoenician Jesoud, who 
came in almost exactly the same way as Jesus is said to have 
come, and was likewise sacrificed to his father, the god El, 
for the sins of the people. 

The object of the present writing is not to authenticate 
any historical character, or to substantiate any belief what- 
ever, but rather to endeavor to find the occult meaning, or 
germ, which has developed into the particular history or 
belief. 

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In the institution of the Feast of the Passover, it is to be 
observed that the blood of the slain lamb was stricken upon 
the door-posts in order that the destroying angel of the Lord 
might pass the door, and not enter to smite the first-born of 
the Israelites, as he is said to have done to the Egyptians, 
who were not protected by this blood-charm. 

In like manner, the high priest went once each year into 
the Holy of Holies, and sprinkled with blood both the 
tabernacle and the vessels of ministry. Paul declares this 
to be a pattern, or symbol, of a hidden truth connected 
some way with the mystery of the Blood of Christ. 
" Through the shedding of blood," says Paul, " we have 
boldness to enter into the holiest, by a new and living 
WAY, which he (Christ) hath consecrated for us, through the 
VEIL, that is to say, his flesh." 

Observe, it is by a " living way," and it is " through the 
flesh." Nothing is said here about dying, or death. This 
" Blood of Christ," whatever it is, affords the " new and 
living way." Jesus makes a most singular statement which, 
rightly understood, throws great light on the " way." He 
says, " He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my 
BLOOD, dwelleth in me and I in him." And again, " He that 
eateth me, even he shall live by me, for my flesh is meat 
indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. Whoso eateth my 
flesh and drinketh my blood hath ETERNAL LIFE. Except 
ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye 
have no life in you." 

Now, what is the meaning of such a declaration? We 
are obliged to come to one of two conclusions: either the 
one who made it was a madman, giving utterance to the 
wildest vagaries, or else he was a master and these words of 
his veil a truth of the most tremendous import to humanity. 
The reason we have for accepting the latter premise is that 
only truth could have endured as this statement has endured 

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— only truth could have had the influence it has had upon 
the race. 

But, has anything like the real, true interpretation ever 
been given to these words of the Christ? Has the veil been 
torn aside to reveal the naked truth of these words? Cer- 
tainly, we have a right to subject a statement like this to rigid 
examination, and to turn every imaginable searchlight upon 
it. Certainly, we are not compelled to accept the interpreta- 
tion any man or set of men have chosen to put upon it. And 
above all, we have a right to reject every interpretation 
which does not appeal to our reason and common sense. 

A symbol is a divine expression, and is capable of many 
interpretations depending upon the unfoldment of the mind 
which contemplates it. Thus, the inspired sayings of the 
Scriptures appear in one age to one class of mind to mean 
one thing, and in another age to a more advanced type of 
mind to mean something vastly different. 

In symbolic statements like the above, we see that a 
strictly literal interpretation is impossible, that is, that 
salvation is to be attained by " eating the flesh and drinking 
the blood " of some particular man — especially a man 
dead two thousand years! To explain this mystery, the 
church has spiritualized, or mentalized, the idea, by invent- 
ing the Eucharist, in which rite it is supposed that the bread 
and wine consecrated by the priest and partaken of by the 
communicant represent in some mysterious and unknown 
way the body and blood of Christ. The Catholics in their 
doctrine of transubstantiation are much nearer the truth 
than any other religionists, for they believe that the waf^ 
and wine swallowed by the priest are actually transformed 
into the body and blood of Christ, as, of course, they are. 
For Christ abides in the priest, as he abides in every man. 
" Ye are the body of Christ! " The Kingdom of Heaven is 
within you and Christ is in his kingdom, a living Christ, 

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as he declares over and over, and yet Christians persistently 
fail to grasp this great truth, relegating their Christ to some 
far-off, unknown and unknowable realm, at the same time 
affirming him to be " omnipotent, onmiscient and omni- 
present! " 

" Alas ! Ye worship ye know not what, we know what we 
worship! " Christ is the union, or marriage of the dual 
forces of life, expressed organically in the formation and 
growth of every cell. Christ is the life-potency in the blood, 
created or incarnated at every single breath, and given a 
substantial vehicle or body of expression with every mouthful 
of food swallowed and digested. Christ descends through the 
germ-cells and becomes incarnate in human form through 
generation; he ascends into his own true and original 
kingdom, to the Father, through the rebirth, or Regeneration. 

Christ as a particular, divine personality never existed, but 
as an eternal, divine principle, Christ always exists: " Be- 
fore Abraham I am! " Christ, through the words of the 
mystic writer of his record, tells what he is: "I am the 

LIVING BREAD WHICH CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN. If ANY 
MAN EAT OF THIS BREAD, HE SHALL LIVE FOREVER: AND 
THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE HIM IS MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL 
GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD ! " 

Herein and hereby we see that we have an open road to 
immortality in the flesh, if only we are but able to discover 
the significance of this " living bread." Confining ourselves 
and our investigations along this line to this world and to 
the sphere of man, the problem becomes vastly more practi- 
cal, with far more possibility of solution, than if we postulate 
our eternity beyond the skies, with a limitless universe for 
exploration. 

We shall assume in this argument that all words put into 
the mouth of Jesus and his apostles are true words, and then 
set ourselves to the task of finding out just what they mean, 

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in other words, to reduce them, if possible, to an exact 
science, to which, if they are true, they should conform. To 
avoid complexity and unnecessary circumlocutions, we will 
adopt the customary phraseology of the Scriptures, wherein 
these nature-principles, like Jesus and the Apostles, to- 
gether with Moses and the Prophets, appear to speak and act 
like i>ersons. 

Jesus declares himself to be " the bread which came down 
from heaven." Recollecting that " heaven " is within the 
body, what then is meant by " down " from this heaven? 
Mythically and scientifically, " down " is outward from the 
center towards the circumference, while " up " is inward 
from the circumference towards the center. Thus, if we 
imagine ourselves standing at the very center of the earth, 
we would properly be looking down in all directions, while 
at the surface we are really looking up whenever we cast our 
eyes down. This illustration is one of many which might 
be given to show that we are that which we do not appear to 
be, or in other words man is mentally very much " topsy- 
turvy." 

Following this definition, we are to consider the center of 
the human sphere as the highest, and the circumference as 
the LOWEST. What is true of the whole body is true of every 
separate cell in the body. The center represents the plane, 
or point, of " heaven," the highest " upheaved," the " throne 
of divinity," while the body of the cell represents the several 
earth-planes ranging from center to circumference. 

The so-termed " bread from heaven " is the Light, the 
influence, the food, the sustenance passing from center to 
circumference, through these various planes, by which they 
are successively " purged " of their grossness and " raised " 
to a divine state — to " dwell " in the heavenly kingdom. 
It is the Inner Light, call it what you will, which constantly 
" vitalizes " this earth, the body of man. 

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This is that light hidden in darkness which the darkness 
doth not comprehend. This Light is the incorporation of the 
Solar Ray itself. We behold the mystery of it working out 
in the growth of the tree, which, through its leaves, draws in 
the corporeal sunlight and stores it up within its woody cell- 
tissues. Here it remains a prisoner, so to speak, serving the 
organism, and virtually creating the tree, causing all growth 
therein from the tiniest sprout to the mighty branching 
trunk. Nor is this Light ever again liberated as a primal 
force, until set free at last by the action of oxygen on the 
carbon of the wood, through the manifestation known as 
fire in the burning of wood or coal, thus producing the 
mechanical power to move the machinery of the world. 

But there is a potency in this encaged Light which hitherto 
has not been keenly observed, and that is its power of spon- 
taneous augmentation or expansion. We observe this, say 
in an explosion of nitro-glycerine, but we have not applied 
the principle to life generally. This inherent potentiality 
must, however, be apparent if we but consider the phe- 
nomena of evolution, wherein the power of spontaneous and 
automatic unfoldment within each and every organism is 
exhibited. It is apparent also, in a higher degree, in the 
phenomenal processes of generation, by which the life and 
individuality of the species is preserved, and its numbers 
constantly increased. 

Pernety says, " Light is for us a vivid image of Divinity. 
Divine love being unable, to speak thus, to contain itself in 
itself, has been diffused outside of itself and multiplied in 
creation. So Light is not confined to luminous bodies: it is 
scattered, it is multiplied, it is as God, an inexhaustible 
source of benefit. It is communicated always without any 
diminution; it seems to acquire new strength by this com- 
munication, as a master who, by imparting knowledge to his 
pupil strengthens his own." 

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But all these observations, interesting as they may be, 
will only end in speculation and wonder, like so much that is 
termed " scientific research," unless we discover the nature 
of this Light, its relation to our lives, and our actual control 
of it, which after all is the important thing to be accom- 
plished. 

Jesus said, " I am the Light of the world; he that fol- 
loweth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the 
LIGHT OF LIFE." Again he says, " If a man keep my 
saying, he shall NEVER SEE DEATH." 

What is it to " follow Jesus? " — to " keep his saying? " 
It is evident that this hints of some knowledge that must 
have been a part of the " Secret Doctrine of the Christ," 
revealed only to the disciples, for nowhere in the recorded 
sayings of Jesus is there a description of any " light " that 
can be followed so that a man will " never see death." 

The observance of the natural, moral law, as expressed in 
the decalogue, the freeing of the mind from the impedimenta 
of things, the conception of the all-embracing law of love — 
these are but the ^preliminary steps to the higher unfoldment; 
but, after all these have been taken, there still remains the 
mystery of how to obey the admonition of the Christ, 
" Come thou, and follow me! " 

That there was a secret doctrine, not openly given out, 
is declared both by Jesus himself and by some of the apostles. 
Jesus says, " I have yet many things to say imto you, but 
YE CANNOT BEAR THEM NOW." To many of his parables he 
appended the remark, always indicative of some mystic 
meaning, " He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Again 
he says, " Unto you " (his disciples) "it is given to know 
the Mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are 
without, all these things are done in parables." Paul also 
declares the word of God to be " a mystery which hath been 
hid from ages and from generations." 

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Jesus accuses the lawyers, the theologians of his time, of 
taking away the key of knowledge, and thus hindering 
those who would enter from entering the kingdom. The 
Qabbalah holds that there is a hidden, secret meaning con- 
cealed under the words of the Hebrew Holy Writings, and 
the Zohar supports this idea. 

To know Jesus as the personification of this mystery, 
and to know that the mystery is directly connected with 
human life, the life of every man, puts one mentally a long 
way towards the solution of the mystery, while to think of 
Jesus otherwise, is to bar one mentally from its conception. 

Jesus is Jesody the Foundation, the Ninth Sephira (emana- 
tion) of the Qabbalistic man. " This Sephira," quoting 
Isaac Meyer, " is termed by the Qabbalists the hidden or 
mysterious Sephira, and is known to signify the androgenic, 
generative principle. It is the root of existence, the link 
in the chain of existences. * Everything,' says the Zohar, 
* shall return to its Jesod, or Foundation, from which it has 
proceeded. All marrow, seed and energy are gathered in this 
place. Hence all the potentialities which exist go out 
through this/ " 



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CHAPTER XI 

THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH 

" As Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it, so 
ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He thai 
loveth his wife, loveth himself. For no man ever hated his own 
flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the 
church. For we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his 
bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, 
and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one 
flesh. This is a great mystery." 

It is well known that Christ never established any church, 
such as we see today. Occultly, the church of Christ is 
identical with the " Vase of Art " in the Great Work of the 
Hermetic Philosophers. It is that, and also something else 
corresponding to it, in the human realm. It is the " closet " 
in which man enters to pray in secret. In a word, Woman is 
the true church of man, just as the Earth is the " church," 
or receptive sphere for the influx of divine, solar energy. 
Man himself has not a complete body, capable of receiving 
the saving grace and benediction of the Most High, until 
united to his proper church, that is, to the Woman who is his 
spiritual and physical counterpart. 

In fact, Christ is not yet born, and can have no active, 
potential existence, save by a union of the sexes, — the 
perfected bi-unity — and this is the ** great mystery " to 
which Paul refers. The word Christ is from chrism, an 
anointing, and it is through a certain " anointing " that the 
King of Glory is crowned, even as Mary broke the alabaster 

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box of sweet-smelling ointment on the head of the Saviour, 
becoming thereby commemorated throughout the ages. 

Furthermore, Christ is associated with the Cross, which 
in this case is not a " wooden instrument of torture on which 
the naked body of a human victim was hung," as so m_any 
millions have been taught to believe — but it signifies 
rather a union of generative, creative forces. We use the 
word " cross " more correctly in speaking of means by which 
fertilization in plants and animals is effected. For example, 
by a MIXTURE of pollens new varieties of plants are created, 
and by cross breeding, certain hybrid animals are made. 
The cross is simply a certain chemism, or alchemism, taking 
place between substances within the generative area, being 
indicative of a certain coalescing of the male and female 
potencies. 

The entire story of the birth, life, death and resurrection 
of the Christ, in fact, has to do with the history of a certain 
physico-spiritual element in the bi-une body of the man and 
woman, " the twain in one flesh." Jesus represents the foun- 
dation, or generative principle on every plane of life, and this 
is the " lost word," the key to the understanding of the 
whole subject. 

Jesus is said to have been born immaculately of the Virgin 
Mary. Mary means the " pure sea." This Sea is said to 
have been " overshadowed " by the Divine Spirit, which, 
becoming incorporate with it, gave birth to a certain potency, 
a visible entity, very properly called the " Foundation," 
Jesod — or Jesus, when personified. The birth of Jesus, 
therefore, is not any isolated incident in remote history, but 
something that takes place in every living body every moment 
of timet Jesus is the very highest expressed potency of the 
life-blood and comes ever into expression as in the " be- 
ginning," when the Spirit of God moved on the face of the 
waters to create. John says, " There are three that bear 

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witness in earth, the s'pirit and the water and the blood, and 
these three agree in one." This one is Jesus, " the founda- 
tion." All the " disciples " of this Jesus-potency may be 
located physiologically as organs or functions which " do 
the will " of the Master-principle. .^^^ 

Jesus is virtually identical with Hiram- Abiff, the Widow's "^ 

Son, who aids King Solomon (the Sun) in the building of his 
Temple — a grand allegory relating to the human body. 
This " Temple " was said to have been built " without 
sound of hammer or any tool of iron." So builds the Master 
the Living Temple, the body, always. 

Jesus, the " carpenter," is the real creative force of man 
on all planes. His " death " occurs when the specific 
creative potency is " slain on the cross." The place where 
this occurs is significant. It is called " Golgotha," the place 
of the skull. The Qabbalah has something instructive to 
say about this Skull: 

" The Masculine power is extended through Daath and the 
Assemblies and Conclaves are filled. It commenceth from 
the beginning of the skull and it extendeth through the 
whole body, through the breast and through the arms, and 
through all the other parts." The " skull " referred to 
from which this " masculine power " is diffused is mani- 
festly not the " brain-box." A little thought must make it 
plain what it is. 

Jesus thus descends in generation taking on the " sins of 
the world," and ascends in the Regeneration, thus " wiping 
out " all former transgression. All this is not metaphorical 
but actual, as I shall endeavor to show. The incarnation, or 
translation, of Jesus by which transgressions are wiped out 
is one literally of " shedding blood." This is easy enough to 
grasp on the generative plane, for the germinal cells require 
a vast quantity of blood for their production, while a still 
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embryon. But it is unknown to science at the present time 
how " shedding of blood " is an essential factor in the 
Regeneration or renewal of human life. And it is a very- 
difficult matter indeed to bring to the consciousness, par- 
ticularly as it involves certain occult and psychic processes. 
In order to clear the way to this understanding, and show 
that it is " ordained of God," and forms the chief subject 
of divine revelation, I shall introduce a variety of Biblical 
symbols, giving their appropriate physiological interpreta- 
tion. 



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CHAPTER XII 

THE STONE THE BUILDERS REJECTED 

The legend of the wanderings of the Israehtes from Egypt 
to the Promised Land is the occult history of the redeemed 
Life-Essences ascending from the lower to the higher planes 
of physical expression. 

According to the legend they had been saved from thirst 
by the waters that gushed miraculously from the Rock, and 
had been fed with falling quails until surfeited, whereupon 
Jehovah interposed a miracle that completely solved the 
food question for the remainder of the journey. 

In the morning, after the sun had dried up the dew, there 
appeared on the ground " a small round thing, as small as 
hoar frost." Seeing this, the people exclaimed, " Man-hu/' 
meaning, " What is it?" And thus the thing always went by 
the name of Man-hu, or rriannay as translated in the Bible. 

This manna, as Moses instructed them, had to be gathered 
every morning else it " bred worms and stank." So the 
people gathered it daily, except on the Sabbath. 

There is one phenomenon in nature somewhat akin to the 
falling manna, and that is the creation of wax by the honey 
bees. This is accomplished by the bees hanging together 
in a large bunch until a high degree of heat is generated, 
whereupon the wax appears in small white specks upon 
their bodies, being picked off bit by bit by other bees and 
built into the comb of the hive. 

The " Ark of the Covenant," which, by the way, is iden- 
tical in significance with, the Ark in which Isis sealed up 

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Osiris for a year in order to regenerate him, is of interest in 
this connection, since it contained a Golden Pot of Manna, 
together with two other objects, viz., Aaron's Rod which 
budded, and the Tables of the Covenant. 

The substance of Manna, when rightly understood, is 
identical with what is called by the Hermetic writers the 
" seed of gold." It is the Solar principle potent to ripen gold 
and bring it to perfection either in the earth or in the Vase 
of Art. It is a substance akin to the First Matter of life, 
and as such enters into the regenerative process, or action, 
as an important factor. Like " manna " it falls daily and 
is the principle nutriment of the regenerate man. 

When " Aaron's rod," which in generation remains a dry 
stick, like the barren fig tree accursed by Christ and caused 
to wither — when this rod is made to bud and blossom 
through Regeneration, it will send forth the seeds of New Life 
and heahng. 

As for the " Tables " hidden with the rest, one will need to 
" descend into deeps '* to find them and their true meaning. 
They are the laws of nature written upon the tablets of 
human life, and concern the mystery of the manna and the 
budding rod — the positive and negative factors uniting to 
bring into potential manifestation the Christ-principle. 

For John, the Revelator, tells us this, " To him that over- 
cometh, I will give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give 
him a White Stone and in the Stone a New Name written, 
which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it." Inti- 
mately associated are the ideas of the " Manna " and the 
" White Stone; " in fact, the Manna, when eaten and trans- 
muted, becomes the " Stone." 

The Stone Symbol is one of the most important in the 
whole Bible: Jacob in commemoration of his dream of the 
" heavenly ladder," sets up a Stone pillar, calling it a " house 
of God," and anointing it with oil to consecrate it. Jacob 

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again " rolls the Stone from the mouth of the Well," in his 
courtship with Rebecca, in order that she might more easily 
draw the water. So also the angel " rolls away the Stone " 
from the sepulcher of Jesus. 

From Joseph is said to come the Shepherd, the " Stone of 
Israel." The Lord is compared to a " living stone disallowed 
of men but chosen of God, and precious.''^ The Disciples 
are " lively stones built up into a spiritual house." Finally, 
Christ is the " Stone which the builders rejected which becomes 
the head of the corner. ''^ This Stone, it is said, was found 
among the " rubbish " of the temple. 

Jacob means occultly the Sim, representing the solar 
principle in man; Is-ra-el means " man-sun-god," or the 
Divine Sun-Man. The Stone shown in the legend of Jacob 
is originally a pure, phallic symbol which is perpetuated 
even to the present time, and is to be observed in the re- 
maining pillars of the old druidic temple at Stonehenge, 
Scotland, as well as in the marble shafts placed at the heads 
of graves — in all upright columns, pillars and obelisks, 
particularly church spires and domes. It even works out 
in society in the crowning and anointing of kings and priests 
— all indicative of the recognition of an Immortal Prin- 
ciple associated in some way with the generative organ- 
ism. 

This Stone is to be identified with the " Rock " from which 
Moses brought forth water for the Israelites — a Rock 
which Paul says " followed them." The same Rock forms 
the subject of Moses' Song, wherein it is shown as the means 
of salvation: " He is the Rock, his work is perfect." Speak- 
ing reproachfully to the generation of the time Moses ex- 
claims: " Of the Rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful! 
. . . Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, 
that they would consider their latter end! . . . For it is 
not a vain thing for you; because it is your life; and through 

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this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land whither ye go 
over Jordan to possess it,'' 

In the New Testament, Peter appears as the living, per- 
sonified Stone (petros, a stone). Upon this Stone, or Rock, 
Jesus declares he will build his church, which the gates of 
hell shall not prevail against! And so he is building it, for 
this Rock is Regeneration — it is Life in manifestation. 
Nature is the church, or expression, of God, which is founded 
literally on the Rock. Out of the Rock has come every 
living organic form, even the body of man is thus derived 
— all by natural evolution. 

The esoteric fact herein involved, and which all previous 
interpretations have entirely overlooked, I believe, is that, 
hidden in the rock and exhibited as the potency holding the 
same in form — a strong, powerful, attractive force requir- 
ing tremendous energy to overcome or disrupt — there is a 
vital element, a sun-power, which, once liberated, springs into 
higher and higher forms of crystallization, spontaneously. 
In a word, the Rock is the primal incarnation of deity. 
; When disintegrated and rendered fluxible, it enters into 
the composition of all forms of life, bearing the inherent 
divine energy within its atomic crystals. The " Rock of Sal- 
vation," the " Corner Stone," " Christ Jesus," etc., all mean 
the same identical thing — the indestructible, vital and 
vitalizing matter (mother) of the natural world. Mater is 
the vehicle of spirit — the two being one and inseparable, 
on which account, matter becomes immortal. The white 
STONE to be given the regenerate man is a perfect building 
material, free from all cracks and flaws. It is spiritual, but 
it is also material, having existed in the world since the 
foundation: " Before Abraham I AM," said the Christ. 



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CHAPTER XIII 

THE CHANGING OF WATER INTO WINE 

Because of the color of wine and its exhilarating effect, it 
has very naturally been chosen by the mythic writers as a 
symbol for the regenerative potency in the blood of man. 
Joel, the prophet, says: " And it shall come to pass in that 
day that the mountains shall drop down New Wine." 
Mountains represent the higher evolved structures of cer- 
tain organisms. Mount Zion, and the " mountains of the 
Lord," are not geographical but andrographical. Zechariah 
says, " Corn shall make the young men cheerful, and New 
Wine the maids." Corn is another symbol, being the sub- 
stantial element in regenerative nutrition. It is, so to speak, 
the magnetic kernel, or atomic germ, about which the 
" wine " essence gathers in the new creation. Observe the 
bi-sexual inference in the text: " the young men, the 
maids." 

In the case of Lot's daughters, who resorted to unusual 
expedients to preserve the race — they first made their 
father drink wine. What happened shows the account to be 
purely mythical and descriptive of the regenerative action. 
Lot and his daughters are the " first fruits " of the Regenera- 
tion. They are the positive and negative principles arising 
from the destruction of Sodom (a secret), and Gomorrah (a 
flowing). Their " cohabitation " is not to be looked upon as 
incest, but simply as a subtle chemism taking place on a 
higher, more interior, plane of life than science yet recog- 

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nizes. This is shown by their " issue." The first daughter 
bore a son called Moab, meaning " a stone," and the other 
bore Ben-ammi, the son of " Ammon." Ammon was god 
of the sun, the sun-principle here entering into Regenera- 
tion, betokening the very Stone which " the builders re- 
jected." 

Moses says of the " nation void of counsel " (ignorant of 
regeneration), that " Their vine is the Vine of Sodom and 
Gomorrah, and their grapes of gall, their wine the poison 
of dragons." But he also says, " Is not this laid up in store 
with me, and sealed up among my treasures? " Showing how 
the poisonous " wine " could be transmuted by Regenera- 
tion. 

The most striking allusion to this regenerative Wine is in 
the account of the " Marriage Feast " of Cana, where Jesus 
is said to have " turned water into wine." It would seem 
rather derogatory to the character of Jesus that he should 
have turned " brewer " on this occasion, but there is a 
reason to suspect that he might have been " regularly in the 
business," for we are told that he was a " wine bibber," 
given to eating and drinking, a friend of publicans and 
sinners! How is it that people can reconcile such state- 
ments with the reputed noble and lofty character of 
Jesus .f^ 

The account simply means something wholly different 
from what appears on the surface. This " water," that 
appears in abundance at the " marriage feast," is, by an 
occult process, well known to the Master, capable of a 
certain remarkable transmutation, into a substance bearing 
some resemblance, in effect at least, to wine. Though 
" Jesus " may truly be said to be always present at this cere- 
mony, he is seldom permitted, owing to the ignorance of the 
wedded or to their religious scruples against " intoxicants," 
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the water stagnates and breeds disease and ultimately death, 
and the marriage, which should be the one grand step into 
the glory of immortal existence, is led by a devious and 
painful route to the tomb ! 

This is the time, and this the place, to embrace the savior, 
and to seek salvation! The prayers that were uttered at 
the service and all the holy words that were spoken, have, 
I fear, fallen on deaf ears, the ceremony being but a hol- 
low mockery, while the marriage itself becomes a repeti- 
tion of the Edenic experience — a transgression, a curse, a 
banishment from the state of freedom, joy, and idyllic hap- 
piness — out from the fields of flowers, into a desert of 
thistles, where life is sustained by sweat and toil and filled 
with anxiety, bitterness and pain. And all because Christ 
has not been invited to the marriage feast, and because he 
does not perform the miracle of transmutation, transforming 
the waters of death into the wine of new life ! 

It is said that new wine must not be put into old bottles, 
but into new bottles, that both be preserved. Here is a 
warning to " wine makers," in this situation — a situation 
described by the Sixteenth Arcanum of the Tarot, " The 
Lightning-struck Tower," from which two men are seen 
falling, the one crowned, the other uncrowned. The crowned 
man alights on his feet, while the one uncrowned is dashed 
to pieces. " The irresistible current had touched the man 
who exposed himself to its vortex on the terrestrial heights; 
if he be impure, he is threatened with disorganization more 
or less complete, according to his intellectual or moral un- 
worthiness. If, on the contrary, he be worthy of the higher 
regions, this baptism of iire renders him one of the Magi; 
the sources of terrestrial life are at his disposition. Having 
reached this point, he will then learn to know the celestial 
spheres progressively, as he knows the terrestrial one, and 
to dominate them,'' 

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However ominous these words of the Tarot may sound, 
there is really nothing whatever to fear in this initiation, if 
one possesses the right knowledge and uses it only for the 
purpose of gaining greater light and unfoldment. 



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CHAPTER XIV 

THE WATER OF REGENERATION 

From the very opening of the great Hfe-legend in Genesis 
where the Divine Spirit moves upon the Waters to bring hfe 
into its first manifestation, to the close in Revelations, 
where the glories of the regenerate life are set forth, — 
throughout the whole narrative we find Water to be the 
most prominent symbol, expressive of the life-giving, life- 
sustaining potency. Water is the primal substance, or body, 
in which life becomes incorporate. It is the plastic, attract- 
ive, magnetic element in which life manifests, and in which 
all transmutations are effected. Hence, it becomes the 
expression of the negative or maternal, the matrix or matter 
of life. All mysteries, it may be said, abide in water. 

After the creation of the visible universe from out the 
waters that gathered together under the firmament, comes the 
Great Deluge — a flood of water, the object of which is to 
cleanse the earth and wipe away its transgressions, leaving 
only the perfect pairs, saved by the ark, to replenish the 
earth. 

Throughout the Scriptures we find so many allusions to 
water in connection with life, that we are led to believe the 
whole mystery of life and death is embodied in this subject. 

By far the most striking illustration of this is afforded in 
the tale of Jesus and the Woman of Samaria. Jesus meeting 
the woman at Jacob's well says, " Give me to drink." 
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Samaritan, with whom the Jews were supposed to have no 
dealings, Jesus rephes to her in these remarkable words: 
" If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that said to 
thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked of him 
and he would have given thee living water. Whosoever 
drinketh of this water (of Jacob's well) shall thirst again; 
but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give 
him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him 
shall be in him a well of water springing up into EVERiaASTiNG 
LIFE." Then the woman says, " Sir, give me this water, that 
I thirst not, neither come hither to draw." Whereupon Jesus 
says, " Go, call thy husband! " And she says, " I have no 
husband," to which Jesus makes this rejoinder: " Thou 
hast well said, I have no husband, for thou hast had five 
husbands! " 

A great many questions arise in this connection. Why, if 
Jesus had the Water of Life, as he claimed, did he not give it 
to the woman when she asked for it? Why, instead of this, 
did he admonish her to call her husband. ^^ And why, again, 
was this man declared not to be her husband .^^ 

This story is evidently related to illustrate some great 
occult truth connected with Regeneration, and the only 
personalities to be considered in it are the woman and the 
husband. Jesus is the principle. The introduction of the 
" husband " is shown to be essential for the acquirement of 
the " living water " by the woman. And why was this man 
not her husband? Probably because of the fact that she, 
having had five husbands, was not sufficiently polarized to 
her present husband to produce the Living Water, or, more 
probably still, because he, since he was ignorant of this 
water and its use, could not in any true, regenerative sense, 
be said to be her husband. 

Whichever the text may mean, and it might mean either, 
the narrative gives us plainly to understand that this 

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immortalizing element is in some way associated with Sex, 
or sexual interaction. This is also shown very plainly in the 
dialogue between Jesus and Nicodemus, to which allusion 
has already been made. Furthermore, we have it in Revela- 
tions: 

" And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear 
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb. 
In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, 
was there the Tree of Life which bare Twelve manner of 
Fruits, and yielded her fruit Every Month, and the leaves 
were for the healing of nations." 

This is part of the grand apocalyptic vision, wherein 
John saw man in the perfect regenerate state. For John 
was in spirit on the Isle of Patmos (meaning man), and saw 
all those things come to pass in the evolution of the individual 
from generation to regeneration — all of which he depicts in 
most graphic figures. 

The " nations " referred to are the groups of cells in the 
human body, and the " leaves " of the Tree of Life (the Heart 
or Blood-Tree) are the magnetic potencies springing from 
the branches of this Tree, preserving it in a condition of 
eternal vitality and growth, which means that all the 
cells are maintained thereby in a state of perpetual 
health. 

The location of this " river " is identical with the ancient 
Eden — in the " midst of the Garden." Imagination can 
easily define its important centers. The " throne of God " 
is the bi-une heart of man and woman, and the Lamb, 
Agnus Dei, is occultly Ignis Dei, " Divine Fire." This fire 
is the mystery of both generation and regeneration. It is 
that which is sentiently experienced as love, desire or pas- 
sion. Not simply desire unquenched, for such desire is but 
the oxygen that feeds the flame. In order to create the 
flame, or fire of life, there must be a substance to burn, 

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chemically allied to carbon, and through the combustion 
occurs transmutation. 

When desire comes into its proper fruition, there is evolved 
the heat, or warmth of life, the energy which generates and 
regenerates. It is only when the God of Love sits on the 
throne and there is no longer any " sin " to be punished — 
when the Son has returned to sit at the right hand of the 
Father, that the " Lamb " or Fire of God descends, serene 
and pure, as a bride to Christ, making the Regeneration a 
divine, human possibility. 

Woman is symboled by the "Lamb," she being the 
embodiment of love, and the type of purity, whiteness. 
Literally she may be said to have been " slain from the 
foundation," and through this very fact we see that the race 
has been saved from annihilation by the " blood of the 
Lamb." Li a broad sense, the shedding of woman's blood 
has redeemed and is redeeming the race through natural 
generation, and will continue doing this up to the pinnacle of 
its perfection. 

But woman has potencies of which she at present little 
dreams, and so has man. Together they possess powers, 
which, if made operative and effectual, are able to triumph 
over this world-tragedy, death and rebirth. And this power 
lies in no less an element than the Water of Life, which at 
the present time, like the fabled fountain of Persian lore, 
is sunken beneath the ground, but which may come again to 
the surface to rejuvenate and regenerate a thirsting, dying 
race. 

Jesus says, " He that believeth on me, out of his belly 
shall flow rivers of Living Water." And again, " The Spirit 
and the bride say. Come. And let him that heareth say. 
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever 
will, let him take of the Water of L^le freely " 

Solomon says, " A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse, 

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a Spring shut up, a Fountain sealed — a fountain of gardens, 
a well of LIVING WATERS." And he gives this advice 
to his son: 

" Drink waters out of thine cmm cistern, and running 
waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dis- 
persed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. Let them 
be only thine own, and not strangers with thee. Let thy 
fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth." 

The prophet Jeremiah complains of the people, saying: 
** For my people have committed two evils; they have for- 
saken ME, the Fountain of Living Waters, and hewed them 
out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water." 

And the " broken cisterns," what are they but the living 
dead — the dying living — of this world? 



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CHAPTER XV 

THE MEANING OF BAPTISM 

To a thoughtful mind it appears strange how that such an 
act as Baptism can have any redemptive efficacy, and yet 
the beHef is firmly rooted in the minds of millions of people 
today that in some mysterious and unknown manner 
salvation depends upon the administration of this rite. 

A belief of such long standing, so deeply imbedded in the 
religious thought of the past and present, is certainly worthj^ 
of investigation. Like other prominent religious rites, it 
must be symbolic of some natural truth, dimly apprehended 
by the awakening consciousness of the race — a truth per- 
haps understood in a former age, wherein it was concealed 
in historic allegory, and perpetuated thereafter in religious 
rites. Baptism by water is but a variant of the idea of 
" blood sprinkling " for atonement and sanctification, though 
it more plainly and literally expresses the underlying truth 
upon which the rite itself is founded. 

The original " baptizer " by water is shown in the Bible 
as John, who fulfils his baptismal mission by administering 
the rite to Jesus — a point worthy of most careful note. If 
the churches had given as much time and thought to dis- 
covering the esoteric meaning of this rite as they have in 
wrangling over the various possible methods of administer- 
ing it — whether to " immerse, to sprinkle or to pour," — 
some practical conclusions might long ago have been reached. 

When the significance of this rite is apprehended, it will 
be seen that all methods are " right," for, in truth, the 

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candidate in the real secret work is simultaneously " im- 
mersed, sprinkled and poured " as will appear. Who, then, 
is this " John? " The Hebrew word is ION AH, meaning 
" the dove," a symbol of peace, which is spiritually repre- 
sented as resting on Jesus just after his baptism by John. 
The Greek word is ION, " the one," meaning the one 
everlasting Life-Principle, which in Revelations is made to 
speak and say of itself: " I am he that liveih and was dead; 
and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys 
of hell and death! " Every redeemed man can say the same 
thing. 

John is expressed physically both as an organism and a 
function. Of all the disciples of the Master, he is most 
beloved, because of his standing highest in the scale of 
evolution. He sits next to the Master at the Last Supper 
and leans his head upon his bosom. He baptizes him in 
Jordan. John and Jesus in the beginning are shown as 
" cousins " of the " same blood," which all works out per- 
fectly in their respective occult spheres. John's raiment and 
food distinguish him as the first, or primal man — the 
elemental, nature man. 

Functionally he is the " voice of one crying in the wilder- 
ness. Prepare ye the way! " He is generation, or the genera- 
tive potency, and prepares the way, making possible re- 
generation. It was said that there were none greater " born 
of women " than John, but he is declared to be " least in 
the kingdom of heaven." This is true enough. The nature- 
man, the born-of- woman man is the greatest on earth, but 
in his present state he is not even fit to enter heaven, inas- 
much as he has no conception of it. 

John " decreases " as Jesus " increases." As the regenera- 
tive potency begins its transforming work, the nature-man 
gives way to the divine-man. The generative potency has 
always to " prepare the way," to blaze a trail through the 

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wilderness of the world, being followed in due season by the 
ONE SUPREME, even Jesus the Christ. After Jesus " comes 
up out of the water," the dove rests upon him, indicating the 
great peace that settles upon the body participating in this 
heavenly rite aright. John is thereafter " slain " by Herod 
{Her OS, or Helios), the sun-principle; that is to say, under 
the influence of the divine alchemism brought about by the 
natural solar-heat, acting upon the vehicle of regenerative 
expression, he gives up his vital essence. 

According to the Biblical tale, John is beheaded to please 
Herodias — all accomplished by " Salome,*' the daughter of 
Herodias dancing voluptuously before the king. This 
beautiful imagery which has been elaborated to such an 
extent in recent drama is simply symbolic of the passional 
experience, in which all the " actors " may be easily identi- 
fied, either as feelings or functions — all co-acting to effect 
the one grand result, Regeneration. 

Strange as it will appear to those accustomed to viewing 
all this as a simple, historical incident, it is nevertheless a 
fact, when we come to know what it really means, that 
John's life is given that the Christ may appear, and the 
" birth," or coming into being, of the Christ potency is 
conditional on John's baptism and death. To be still more 
explicit. Baptism is the act by and through which Jesus 
becomes endowed with miraculous power. Normally this 
renunciation of life by John would be a generative action, 
but, by the power of the Holy Spirit descending (not any 
supernatural phenomenon, however), it is transformed into 
a regenerative action, inaugurating within the human 
sphere a series of marvelous phenomena, which, if carried 
to the possible limit, result in the complete immortalization 
of the flesh. This, and this alone, is what the doctrine of the 
Christ means, and what it was designed originally to teach. 

The christening of the infant after birth, which as a 

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religious rite seems a perfect absurdity, is, when we under- 
stand it, the truest of all symbols. For, it is immediately 
after the birth of the generative potency, or life principle, 
that transmutation becomes effectual. 

The " death," or passing of John, marks the end of Water 
Baptism. After this comes the true regenerative baptism, 
which is by the Holy Ghost. This is the " comforter " sent 
to man, and is the realization of the highest known joy. The 
" unpardonable sin " against this Holy Baptism, or Holy 
Ghost, would be a return to generation. Why unpardonable.^ 

Because, as has been shown, generation is sin — a sin 
incurring the death-penalty. Think of it. Think of the 
horror of it! Every living man, woman, and child in the 
world today, all under the penalty of death, as much so as 
if condemned and in a death-cell ! Is it, then, not worthy of 
the most earnest, devoted thought, the greatest personal 
sacrifice, the most herculean effort, to bring this message to 
the condenmed, even if but few be aroused from the lethargy 
of an age-incarceration to burst their prison doors and come 
forth from the darkness of death into the LIGHT OF LIFE? 



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CHAPTER XVI 

THE SECRET OF THE SEED 

" Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and 
the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is IN 
ITSELF upon the earth. 

Of all nature's wonders, the most wonderful is seed. Who 
that had never beheld the oak could possibly conceive that 
it sprung from a tiny acorn? And who that had not been 
taught the marvel of it could beheve that the human being 
comes from a tiny, invisible cell of which it would take 
forty thousand laid in a row to equal the height of a man? 

In the seed are involved the life and potential evolution of 
the species. Everything has its seed — - animals, vegetables, 
minerals. The i>eriod of the seed's vitality becomes shorter 
as we ascend the scale of organized life. The seed of minerals 
is practically immortal and may lie for untold ages in the 
heart of the earth awaiting conditions for its development. 
This immortality, or a measure of it, is imparted to the 
seed of organic beings, for all organic life is derived from the 
mineral and returns to the mineral. Life may be said to 
slumber in the mineral and to awaken in the various organic 
forms. It is the seed that forms the link, or bridge, between 
these lives — the long series of lives — from the mineral, 
through the vegetable, and the animal up to man — holding 
ever within itself the mystery of life and death. 

In the lower forms of life the seed is developed as an 
entity apart from the individual. In mammalians, the 
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and the seed is only created in and by the act of sexual 
union. This fact, though a matter of the commonest obser- 
vation, seems to be entirely overlooked by those who attempt 
to reason on the subject from a moral, or theological stand- 
point. 

That oft quoted passage in John: ** Whosoever is horn of 
God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him,'' 
is taken to be supportive of the idea of celibacy and its 
divine sanction, but upon analysis it is evident that the 
passage has no reference to this whatever. 

How can a man's seed be said to " remain in him," when, 
normally, he has no seed to remain? What he has is only 
half a seed, or more correctly speaking, the potency requisite 
to create seed. The real seed can only be created, and is 
only created, by a fusion of the male spermatozoon with 
the female ovum, which, of course, involves a sexual process. 
There is no possible way to escape the conditions, and never 
will be, unless Professor Loeb, or some other enterprising 
scientist, extends his artificial fertilization discovery to 
successfully include the human ova. 

But when the natural course of seed-creation is followed, 
the seed so created remains not in man, but in woman, and 
leads to generation of the species. How, and under what 
conditions, then, could the " seed " remain in man.? That 
is the thing to determine in order to make any meaning 
whatever of the text. And this inquiry leads us to some- 
thing vitally interesting. 

It can " remain in man " only by having passed over into 
its true development sphere, woman, and made into seed — a 
seed entirely different, however, from the generative seed — 
a hybrid, so to speak, with a wholly different destiny from 
the embryonic seed. Having been re-invested of what it 
has been divested (symboled by the " head " of John the 
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infused by a truly divine potency, it is then returned to the 
Master, its own proper sphere, man, for further development. 
Then and then only is the man " born of God," so that he 
CANNOT commit sin — the sin of generation, for his seed, the 
seed created by the bi-une immortal forces, abides loithin 
him, as within a womb, gestating, and springing up into life 
everlasting ! 

To imagine that this marvel can be produced inde- 
pendently of sexual interaction is quite as absurd as to 
suppose that a child was ever born virginally. We have a 
number of writers, following Zugassent, who lay claims to a 
discovery of regenerative results through some form of 
semi-celibacy, or distortion of the natural sex-impulse. How 
can anything of this kind be called a " discovery," when it 
has been taught and presumably practised, to some extent 
at least, by the Catholic Church since its establishment? 

Has the practice of celibacy ever produced any appreciable 
effect on the normal health or longevity of the individual, or 
the sect advocating it? Observation and history show that 
it has not. On the contrary, it has led to more vagaries 
and abnormalities than any doctrine ever put forth. And 
the institution which imprisons men in monasteries and 
women in nunneries, even could it be shown that such sexual 
isolation is anything more than a pretense of virtue, is 
responsible for having committed the most grievous crime 
against nature and nature's God ever known in the history 
of the world. If the practice is good for the priests, why is it 
not good for the laity? One answer is that the laity have to 
propagate in order to support the priests. The old monks 
were taught that self -abuse was holy, while to even look upon 
a woman was impious! And all this gigantic, ecclesiastic, 
mental myopia, like a great deal more called " religion," 
has been caused and supported by a total misconception of 
the meaning of texts like the one quoted above. 

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The practice called " Karezza," and a like idea known as 
" Magnetation," and other similar and derived practices, 
which consist solely in the prolongation of the act with 
voluntary avoidance of the natural orgasm, are to be un- 
conditionally condenmed as forming a species of abuse that 
can have no physical or mental benefit whatever, and are 
likely to have most deleterious effects upon the health of the 
victim. This "system" of practice has to my personal 
knowledge been given a thorough trial by a certain society, 
and it resulted in nervous hysteria in the women and painful 
disorders in the men. 

The teaching of Jesus concerning the Eunuch is also 
frequently brought forward as an argument in favor of 
celibacy. But a " eunuch " in the sense meant by Jesus is 
not one made so by mutilation, but rather represents the 
man that " for the kingdom of heaven's sake " has re- 
generated himself. A eunuch was made in olden times, and 
still is in some parts of the world, for the purpose of becoming 
a " harmless servant of the harem." The " eunuch " of the 
Regeneration, it may be remarked, would be equally trust- 
worthy in a like situation without submission to any bar- 
barous measures or abnormal prohibitions. But, as Jesus 
says, " all men cannot receive this saying," that is, they 
cannot understand it. 

Isaiah says, " Neither let the eunuch say. Behold I am a dry 
tree. For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my 
sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold 
of my covenant. Even unto them vnll I give in mine house and 
Tjoithin my walls a place and a name better than of sons or of 
daughters; I WILL GIVE THEM AN EVERLASTING 
NAME, THAT SHALL NOT BE CUT OFFr 

Another teaching, a sort of pseudo-scientific celibacy, I 
find to be very much in vogue in some quarters from certain 
disseminated literature on the subject, the pith of which 

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teaching is that through abstinence the " seed " is absorbed 
into the blood, and goes to increase physical vitality, and 
brain force. 

As has been shown, neither sex has any true " seed," and 
as for the retained sperma being " re-absorbed " in any way, 
that is, under all conditions, a physiological impossibility. 

Every one of any experience at all knows that the ordinary 
sex-expression is very depletive of vitality and that a certain 
abstinence does restore the normal conditions of vigor and 
elasticity, but beyond this it does nothing, and in fact, if 
abstinence be too greatly prolonged, it has its deleterious 
effects also. 

So the crying question goes up everywhere, what is to 
BE DONE? One is continually between the Devil of excess 
and the Deep Sea of continence, neither of which is ideal nor 
desirable, both leading to physical demoralization and 
death. No wonder man has come to look upon sex as a 
thing accursed, to cower beneath it as a slave, to hide from 
it in shame, to bring the enginery of custom and law into 
play in its suppression and control — largely, as we see, 
without avail. Sex is a tyrant whom all obey, a Mephis- 
topheles with whom all sign a compact with their life's 
blood. 

From this condition there is but one escape, and that is 
the " New and Living Way " of Regeneration — the way 
that leads to the realization of true happiness — the way 
that reveals the mystery of rebirth into everlasting life. 

The method of this rebirth bears a distinct analogy to 
that of the first, or common birth. The latter may be said 
to begin at the moment of conception, by the infusion of two 
germ-cells into one, which thereafter becomes a sphere of 
attraction, a nucleus about which other cells form spon- 
taneously. The unseen Archeus, or builder, is there, en- 
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and creating, evidently according to a definite and pre- 
conceived pattern. The mode of crystallization, whether it 
be of mineral or of man, is seen to be essentially the same. 
Two seminal potencies are brought into contact, and this is 
the signal for the Great Work to begin, which normally does 
not stop until the perfect form stands forth. 

In the case of man, both these potencies are derived from 
the blood, and unite to form the flesh and bones, the tissues 
and organs, of the embryon. The blood itself enters through 
the umbilicus, and the other element, a derivation of the 
blood, called the Amniotic Fluid, forms a sea in which the 
young child swims for months, and of which it swallows 
quantities. This, in another work, I have referred to as the 
" nurse " of the embryo, though strictly speaking it is but 
one of the nurses. In the gestation of the child in the womb 
we have the pattern of the gestation of man in the Regenera- 
tion. In either case the body is built cell by cell by the inter- 
action of two vital fluids. In the end it becomes prac- 
tically a congelation, a very large percentage of it being 
water. 

It must have struck every thoughtful observer of nature, 
how very profligate she appears to be of her sexual forces. 
She sends out a myriad blossoms on every bush and tree, 
but only a proportionally small number of these produce 
seed. This redundancy seems to be for the purpose of en- 
suring reproduction. At one stage of evolution, the excess 
appears to be on the side of the female element, but higher 
up the profusion of the male element becomes more and 
more manifest. 

Take the bee for illustration. There will be thousands of 
drones created to one queen, only one of which will be 
utilized in the preservation of the life of the hive. On a 
certain day the queen takes her nuptial flight pursued by 
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the prize. Up, up she soars, straight as an arrow, and as 
swiftly. There is but one of the pursuing lovers that can 
match her flight, only one who will be able to reach her. 
This one represents the survival of the fittest, nor will he 
survive more than a brief moment, for, caught in mad 
embrace, he revels in the kiss of death, being disemboweled 
in the act and falls stunned and lifeless. But in thus yielding 
up his hfe to love, the queen is enabled to lay fertile eggs to 
the number, it is said, of twenty-five million, extending over 
a period of about three years! 

But what of all the other drones.^ When the fertilization 
of the Amazon apis has been effected, and she returns 
with her bloody trophy robbed from her daring and unfor- 
timate consort, the spinster workers, having apparently no 
sentiment, and actuated only by economic considerations, 
set to work to slay one by one the vast horde of drones which 
for months they have labored so hard to bring to maturity. 
The whole host of them is forthwith ruthlessly slaughtered. 
The end justifies the act. 

Very much the same thing occurs in the human hive. In 
the " nuptial flight " there are thousands of spermatazoa, 
corresponding to the drones, starting out valiantly in quest 
of one single ovum, the Queen, and she opens to receive but 
one, the swiftest, the strongest, the best. The others perish 
ignominiously. From the standpoint of the co-operating 
individuals this is a vast sacrifice. It involves the sacrifice 
of much vitality on the part of the male, a sacrifice which 
in one way or another continues virtually all through the 
period of gestation, and it demands a most strenuous and 
continuous sacrifice on the part of the female, the mother to 
be, as every one knows, and as every mother will attest. In 
some of the lower forms of life, generation causes the im- 
mediate death of one or both parents. 

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and manifestation leads most surely to the ultimate ex- 
haustion and death of the parents. Not so much directly 
because of what the child-bearing robs them, as indirectly, 
because the forces which should be combined to recreate 
themselves have all been dissipated and forever lost. For 
under such conditions the Seed of Regeneration is never 
formed. 

What is the Seed of Regeneration.^ It is an entity com- 
posed of a substance akin to the seed of minerals, of which 
mention has been made. It is atomic in its constitution, 
ethereal in its nature, vital in its action. It may appear 
somewhat far-fetched to call this substance " seed," as it 
seems to act more in a nutritive capacity to the germinal life- 
force than otherwise, and yet, really, all seed does likewise. 
The bulk of the seed, any seed, consists of a highly differen- 
tiated and purely expressed form of food designed to nourish 
the germ in its earthly growth and development. And so 
this regenerative " seed " acts as a nutrient to the cells of 
the bodily tissues. 

Once formed in its proper calyx, it takes sudden wings, 
like thistledown, and flies to its proper cell-sphere by an 
irresistible attraction, being absorbed forthwith by the 
fluidic life-substances in the cell, even as light passing 
through a pane of glass to nourish the plant growing in the 
room. The seed itself is really a highly potentialized form 
of light, which floods the cell with new life and vitality. 
This happens only when man is " bom of God " and his 
seed (rightly formed) " remaineth in him." 

This is the Seed of Abraham (A Brahm, " the sun "), 
which was said to be " as the dust of the earth, or the stars 
of heaven." In very truth, each one w as a star set in the 
canopy of heaven (the regenerate body), and all have been 
raised from the dust! "In my father's house are many 
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" mansion " in the house of the " Father," wherein these 
redeemed, seminal sols go to dwell eternally. 

Thus it is that the regenerate Son of Man becomes 
" resurrected " and " ascends to the Father," meaning an 
ascension to the inmost spiritual planes of life. And does 
any one presume to say, because corporeal, and transpiring 
in accordance with divine, natural law, that it is any the less 
" spiritual.^ " 

Many people have a strange notion regarding " spirit," 
that it must be something incorporeal, mysterious, utterly 
incomprehensible. There virtually is no spirit, save the 
spirit of Light, and no soul, save the soul of Substance. The 
union of this spirit and soul, that is, the entrance of light into 
substance, produces crystallization and form, with all the 
attendant movement and phenomena of life. But to try to 
think of this in a universal way, leads only to exhausting 
speculation, and imaginary concepts. To investigate it 
within the sphere of our own physical being is alone pro- 
ductive of satisfaction and enlightenment. 

The parables of Jesus concerning seed, and the sowing of 
seed, are deeply instructive when once we understand the 
real nature of the seed to which reference is made. 

The " kingdom of heaven " is compared to a mustard 
seed, one of the smallest of seeds, which, when sown in its 
proper soil, becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come 
and lodge therein. This parable refers solely to the Re- 
generative Seed sown in the human sphere — the " birds " 
being the same as " angels " — a poetic symbol of the Songs 
of Rejoicing, the Harmony of the Spheres of perfect being! 

Jesus again declares the Seed to be the " Word," which I 
have shown to be the seminal, regenerative essence itself. 
As every agriculturist knows, there is a proper time, a proper 
place, and a proper manner in which to sow any kind of 
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thing required is to find the proper seed, and seed of good 
quality. 

Nearly every one will demand at the outset to know not 
only the actual seed but every step in the process of semina- 
tion so that he may analyze it mentally, which means that 
he would like to pass judgment on it before subjecting it to 
actual trial. Ninety-nine out of every hundred would 
probably reject the knowledge, because the deeper part of 
it is something that defies mental analysis, and must be 
understood in another way. 

All sages who have mastered this principle agree that it 
cannot be openly revealed. Pythagoras says, " How won- 
derful is the agreement of sages in the midst of difference! 
They all say that they have prepared the Stone out of a 
substance which by the vulgar is looked upon as the vilest 
thing on earth. Indeed, if we were to tell the vulgar herd 
the ordinary name of our substance, they would look upon 
our assertion as a daring falsehood. But if they were 
acquainted with its virtue and efficacy, they would not 
despise that which is, in reality, the most precious thing in 
the world. God has concealed this mystery from the foolish, 
the ignorant and the wicked, and the scornful, in order that 
they may not use it for evil purposes." 

What do we know about the germination and growth of 
any seed? We have learned by observation what a seed is, 
and that it should be placed in the earth in order to grow, 
but beyond this we know absolutely nothing about it. All 
the processes of germination and growth are to us a sealed 
book. And why should we need to know? Jesus admonishes 
us on this point by saying that after committing the seed to 
the earth one should sleep, that the seed springs up and 
grows one knows not how, " for the earth bringeth forth fruit 
OF HERSELF," spontaneously. 

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Virgin Mary is but a grand dramatization of this wonderful, 
mystical, spiritu-natural, divine-human phenomenon of 
creating this regenerative seed. The life of Jesus is the 
growth of this " minute mustard seed " into a vast tree 
filling all the earth, the mortal body, and rendering it thereby 
semi-divine. This is the " Tree of Life,*' which at maturity 
brings forth a potent seminal essence, capable of effecting 
the ultimate miracle — the complete divinization of the 
human, the immortalization of the mortal! 

To perfect this Seed requires a fulfillment of what is 
prefigured in the dialogue between Nicodemus and Jesus 
concerning the rebirth of man when he is old, by a process 
of re-entering his mother's womb and being " born again " 
of the Water and the Spirit, which is all symboled and 
brought out in the betrayal, crucifixion, death and resurrec- 
tion of Christ. 

Whoever has the idea that the " resurrection of the dead " 
means the opening of sepulchers and the re-clothing of 
ghastly bones with flesh, is a million or more miles from the 
conception of the real truth of the matter. Paul gives us a 
clear idea of the resurrection, if we will but understand what 
he says, in the wonderful fifteenth chapter of 2d Corinthians. 

" But some man will say. How are the dead raised up? 
And with what body do they come? " The reply is most 
significant: " Thou fool! that which thou sowest is not 
quickened, EXCEPT IT DIE. And that which thou sowest, 
thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may 
chance of wheat, or SOME OTHER grain." 

Herein it becomes plain enough that the resurrection of 
the body means the transformation of the body by the 
sowing of a certain seed, which, when sown, like any other 
seed, dies, and is reborn with new potentialities. To this 
seed Paul says, " God giveth a body as hath pleased him, 
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That is to say, every Regenerative Seed is given a new 
body in the form of a cell — a microcosm in the Grand Body 
which mythically is represented by the Earth, or the Uni- 
verse — the macrocosm. 

Paul goes on to say more wonderful things still about this 
resurrection of the dead. "It" (the seed), he says, "is 
sown in corruption'' (as in generation); "it is raised in in- 
corruption'' (in the regeneration). Compare this with what 
Pythagoras says above concerning the " vile " nature of the 
original seed, and then recall also the fact that Jesus, its 
symbol, is said to have been " despised and rejected of 
men." 

Paul says further of the seed, "It is sown a natural 
BODY." Could anything be plainer .^^ This means it is a 
natural substance and sown in the natural way. " It is 
raised a spiritual body." What is that? That, indeed, 
is the " mystery hid from the foundation," the secret 
science, the pivot on which the whole doctrine of the Christ 
turns, whereby Christ becomes glorified in man. How this 
natural seed-body is changed into a spiritual Seed-Body is 
occultly told in a hundred places throughout the Bible and 
other sacred books, but unless one is able to put " two and 
two together," he may never be able to grasp it. Here is 
the point where one must be in position to do the work, in 
order to realize its meaning. " Faith without works is 
dead." 

This seed is " sown m dishonor and weakness." What 
is the meaning of that? It is sown by an action considered 
" dishonorable " because of its unfortunate consequences — 
an action that has hitherto been the prime cause of degenera- 
tion and death, and of all the disease, sickness and suffering, 
and almost every imaginable misery and horror with which, 
since the beginning of time, the human race has been afflicted 
— an action epitomized and expressed in the word, sex- 

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abuse, which includes every present known use of the sexual 
function. " It is raised in glory and power " — in and 
through the regenerative action. 

The author of Upa Sastra gives a fine explanation of this: 
" What is sin, essentially? Every act is a sowing of seed. 
Sin is said to be sowing to the flesh, and the consequence, 
the Bible teaches, is to reap corruption. We say the mouth 
waters for anything eagerly desired. This water might be 
called the salivary seed. Whatever we make an effort to 
obtain, we by this means sow seed upon it in order to make 
it our own. We cast our seed upon the soil or plane beneath 
us; that is, our desires go out upon earthly things. If we 
delight in those things for our own sake, we, in the act of 
sowing, descend ourselves towards their level. Man's seed 
is ever one with himself: whatever soil he casts his seed 
into, he can never rise but by carrying that soil up with 
himself. This is degeneration; this is sowing to the flesh; 
this is sin; this is re-enacting man's original fall. The suffer- 
ing entailed by thus ' lading himself with thick clay,' as the 
scripture puts it, is absolutely the penalty for sin. 

" We read in the Bible of one who ' hath borne our sor- 
rows,' who ' was woimded for our transgressions,' upon 
whom * the Lord hath laid the iniquities of us all,' who 
' poured out his soul unto death,' and who ' was numbered 
with the transgressors.' His experiences are likened to a 
seed which is sown in order that it may die, and thence 
bring forth the accustomed fruit. These things are said of 
Jesus Christ. If the seed ' die not, it abideth alone, but if 
it die, it brings forth fruit.' 

" What grand principle of a world's resurrection is here 
involved, or taught as lying in the death of an individual? 
The seed h,ere sown is a divine offspring; the soil into which 
it is sown is humanity. When implanted, its heavenly 
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radiates into the stagnant mass around until there is an 
equaKty. The mass has gained what the sown form has lost; 
the seed is comparatively dead. This is the first necessity of 
fruitfulness, as the scripture states. This dying is a cause, of 
which fertility is to be the effect; * he pours out his soul unto 
death ' — in other words, his life-essence is dissipated, 
radiated or disseminated upon those things which surround 
him. 

" The saliva, or salivary seminations which are thrown 
into masticated food, constitute so many inseparable links 
or bonds which unite the particles of food to the human 
organism. A subtle rapport becomes at once established, 
and the essential particles of the food, even in this pre- 
liminary stage, are indrawn within the scope and reach of 
the vital organic circulations. The salivary seed is, as may 
be palpably perceived, projected into its soil; there it 
partially dies; that is, * it pours out its soul ' as re-dissemina- 
tion. It is the same, whether we say the soul is poured out 
or that seed is disseminated, or that sacrificial blood is shed, 
or that the activity and heat of protruded, vortically-f ormed 
offspring are again being radiated as seminations or con- 
crete forms of super-essential life into surrounding sub- 
stance. 

" The sum of the matter is — divine life comes forth 
through womb action, clothed in mortal substance, the 
substance of the comparatively lifeless body of humanity. 
This life, like heat, dissipates itself; there is thus a dying of 
the divine form down to the level of the mass; excepting that 
this form is its nucleus. If the mass was originally a form 
of sin or transgression, this nucleal form is now one with it 
by means of a positive life, as disseminations, which has 
been projected into that mass. 

" Now when this divine form first descended as offspring 
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this became appropriated by the mass of cold human soil 
around, the form not only ' died ' through the radiations of 
its original life, but the very process of thus dying, con- 
joined and bound to it as a moving sepulcher, the mass which 
received the living, radiated, positive entities. 

" This form must now rise with the mass attached to it, 
not else; for it is in perfect rapport with that mass, as a 
heart is in rapport with its surrounding frame. Thus, the 
dying of the sown seed is a re-distribution of life; and the 
fruitage is the body, or ' pulp ' which this distributed seed 
life accretes to itself, and bears upwards as * first fruits,' as 
abstracted precious things to its original home in the skies. 
In this brief explanation is involved the birth, ministry, 
death, resurrection and ascension of the divine incarnated 
life known as Jesus the Christ. 

" But there is a sowing also which is not sin; and that is 
when our sense or carnal desires go forth as subsidiary to 
other and higher desires which yearn for the restitution of all 
things to primal order; thus, by denying our natural de- 
grading propensities the first place, we tend to destroy them 
and rise upon their ruins; while by gratifying those same 
propensities in serving self alone, we immerse ourselves more 
and more, we sow our very souls, in sensualism and car- 
nality. Every act of this kind of sowing is a sin, and, as 
described, is its essential nature. Sin, in fact, is loving that 
which is below, and so attaching it to ourselves, from mere 
sensual motives. 

" Love is the moving force of everything, life being the 
extension of that force; thus, the love of one plane, as a 
positive, is the life of that receptive plane which is the next 
below. There is no variation attending this simple force of 
love and its exterior development, whether we investigate 
its nature in the heavens above or the earth beneath. The 
expression so common in scripture, to gird oneself, or, to gird 

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up the loins, as preparatory to action, is full of instruction 
to us respecting the relations of Love and Life. 

" Force, seminal force, is the universal form of power, 
even where space and time have no existence; and indeed, 
that the same form of force is paramount in the animal 
nature of all of us too, may be proved by this, that much 
action of the brain, or of the stomach, or of the exterior 
muscles, deflects the power and substance which otherwise 
would flow into the sexual spermatic vessels. 

" That God is love, is the Christian's text, and yet no 
sect hesitates to cm-tail and modify, in appKcation, its broad, 
absolute sense. No man ever yet hated his own body, but 
nourishes and cherishes it, is also a dictum of scripture, as 
well as the law of Life, corporeal, spiritual and divine. God's 
love tends, as the soul's instinct tends, to draw the body 
close. The positive principle derives exquisite enjoyment 
from the compressive grasp of clinging, passive affections. 
Whether love be divine and pure, or carnal and impure, 
there must be delight in it from the sensation alluded to; 
just as there must necessarily be a yielding bliss experienced 
by the passive affections wheii conscious that the yearning 
male vigor is pouring its affluence, as a strong sustaining 
arm, through and around all their being. 

" In the case of our orb, so fallen off. Love seeks to draw 
it up, in the execution of his omniscient counsels, and con- 
stitute it a new heart, a new center of life to the orbs of 
universal space; as though the absence of the desired object 
intensified the heart's longing towards it. Oh ! the heart of 
the heavens is a Man's heart, which reproduces its emotions 
in our daily lives. It is in this process of drawing up, this 
clasping of the cold benumbed earth to the ardent bosom 
of the yearning heavens, that are involved all the changes 
of dissolving worlds, the scenes of judgment, the agonies 
and blank despairs of hell, which mythic works depict." 

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The foregoing is very deep, and demands more than a 
superficial reading. In it is to be fomid succinctly every 
step of the regenerative process, and the rationale of the 
whole work of race redemption. 



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THE SERPENT AND THE DEVIL 

The serpent has, from the remotest times, been regarded 
with a singular veneration difficult to understand, especially 
when we consider what a really repulsive and venomous 
beast it is. It was held by the ancients to be the embodi- 
ment of both evil and good, divine powers were ascribed 
to it, and it was worshiped as a god. 

Moses, the magician, when he saw the serpents biting the 
people, raised upon a pole a fiery, brazen serpent, and those 
who had been bitten looked upon this by his command and 
lived. John alludes to this miracle, saying, ** As Moses 
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son 
of Man be lifted up." If the Son of Man was the Son of God, 
why must he be " lifted up? " 

The natural fact from which the Serpent Symbol is drawn 
is the Digestive Tube, which bears a striking resemblance 
to a coiled serpent. It is through this serpentine tube that 
the physical evolution of the species from worm to man has 
been brought about. Organic life may be said to consist in 
one long process of eating and digesting. We see it first 
illustrated in the tree, wherein the sap is drawn upward, 
thus revealing a principle or force operating contrary to the 
force of gravity, inertia and death — a principle of levity, 
activity and life. 

All visible movements in nature conform to the universal 
movement, the elliptical and spiral, this being the resultant 
of the original impulse of the " whirling motion " of ions 

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about a spiritually potential point of energy — a vortical 
movement which sucks in the surrounding particles of 
elemental substance, congealing, or crystallizing them into 
magnetic masses from which is derived the cell, and ulti- 
mately the multi-cellular organism. This spiral move- 
ment resembles the coiled serpent; Spirit and Soul, the 
bi-une life-force, abide eternally at the center — the Sun- 
Center of the life of the sphere, and the magnetic energy 
radiating from this point manifests as desire or hunger, and 
results in nutrition, accretion and growth. This, in brief, is 
the history of all life-phenomena. 

Ophiolatry, or serpent worship, was anciently connected 
with sex, probably from an association of ideas, the erect 
serpent naturally symbolizing priapus, the apparent source 
of life emanation. It is little wonder the ancients wor- 
shiped this emblem of the life-principle. Jesus, or Jesod, 
is, if the truth were known, but the personification of it. 
He represents the very same thing that Moses " raised " in 
the wilderness, whereby a deadly object (generation) was 
transformed into something that is healing and life-giving 
(regeneration). 

This symbolic " raised serpent " is wonderfully suggestive 
and instructive. It shows that this foundational Christ- 
principle may be changed voluntarily, that its sting or poison 
may be removed, and itself be converted into a remedial 
agency. All this is part and parcel of the New Way, the 
new truth, the new life. To come into this understanding, 
is to come into the LIGHT OF LIFE. 

According to the orthodox creed, the Devil exists as a spiri- 
tual personality antagonistic to God. This conception of a 
personal Devil is to be traced to the aborigines, who were 
accustomed to personify all the good and bad elements as 
gods or demons. Those which affected them beneficently, 
like the elements producing seed-time and harvest, were 

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" good " spirits, while those which appeared malefic, like 
the hurricane causing devastation and loss, were accounted 
" evil " spirits. From these undoubtedly have been evolved 
the modern " God and Devil." 

All this, though apparently pure superstition, is neverthe- 
less based upon certain occult facts connected with nature 
and life. I will again quote from Upa Sastra, which gives 
the clearest and most satisfactory explanation of the Devil 
that I have yet seen: 

" Some ethnologists modify their classification of the 
human races by the test of having a devil in their religious 
systems or otherwise; not knowing that where there is a 
Deity, there must be a devil, in every system, imder some 
form or other, so long as an opposite principle to good exists. 
Through the transformation of * being lifted up,' as shown 
in the Bible, the serpent, that is the devil or satanic prin- 
ciple, becomes a savior; for it is the intellectual-sensual 
principle in its spiritual degrees which is called ' devil ' 
and ' Satan.' Evil would never feel repugnance to good if 
they existed entirely apart. Why should it.^^ We feel 
repugnance only to that which injures us. If hell were the 
necessity of a fate unconnected with the divine will, those 
suffering its tortures, even Satan himself, could call forth 
or exercise no resentment against Heaven; but it is the 
pangs which evil suffers on the conscious approach of a 
higher life, which beget that intense hatred, which, according 
to scripture, characterizes the fiend. 

** All pain is the result of an extra inflow of life; or, in 
the case of the body, of an extra inflow of blood and vital 
activity to any part. Thus pain, every kind of pain that can 
afflict man bodily or spiritually, is from the same cause, 
increase of circulating life. In the progress of the regenera- 
tive life downwards from the heavens, it brings first to the 
spiritual plane touched such an increase of life or disintegra- 

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tive action as to dissolve or decompose gradually its original 
formation. 

" In the progression of the new life, one part of the 
serpent-form is first elevated and purified, say the head; 
and then, this elevated portion proceeds to eat or draw up, 
by assimilation, the next part. The Christ says, in substance 
— If I, the serpent, be lifted up, I will draw all up after me. 
'This principle of action is represented by the well-known 
emblem of a serpent eating its tail — meaning that the 
members of its body, which are already elevated, will in 
turn eat up or elevate the inferior members. 

" The gods are often represented in statues or pictures, 
with their inferior members or legs taken up or turned up. 
So, * Jacob gathered up his feet into the bed,' or place of 
rest. Ananta is the feminine principle redeemed, and be- 
comes the victor's wreath; and whether it be figuratively 
shown as a laurel-crown, after the manner of the Greeks; 
or, as the many-headed serpent; or, as a choral concourse 
of glorious gopi-forms wrought into a garment of beauty, 
the one great truth is taught — the man has won his 

MANIPORM wife! " 



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CHAPTER XVIII 

THE GOLD FISH 

Some very important light is thrown upon this subject 
by a study of the fish. We have shown how the spirit moves 
upon the waters in creation. The first free-moving, verte- 
brate form, is the fish. This primitive form of life still per- 
sists in the germinal Hfe of the higher species. Even the 
lower types begin life as a minute fish-form. For example, 
the spat of the oyster, and other molluscs, are born as little 
creatures with a tail for propulsion, moving about freely for 
a time before they attach themselves to the rock and grow 
their mature shell. So also the young of the frog begins as 
the tadpole which swims about as a fish, attaining quite a 
size, until finally it drops its tail, grows legs, and merges into 
frog-hood. Even man begins life as a little fish, the sper- 
matozoon being bom in water, bred in water, and coming 
forth to breathe the higher element, air, after a series of 
aquatic, foetal developments. 

The reputed life of Jesus is singularly associated with 
water and with fish. He chose his disciples from fishermen, 
and made them " fishers of men." He taught his disciples 
how to cast their nets so as to draw fish successfully. He 
fed the multitudes with a few fishes which were miracu- 
lously multiplied. He taught Peter the art of taking gold 
from the fish. The first food eaten after his resurrection was 
a piece of broiled fish. The great mystic sign given to show 
approximately the time of the Regenerative Cycle is em- 
bodied in the tale of Jonah and the Whale. 

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On some old tombs an inscription relating to Jesus will 
be found and under it the figure of a fish, or the word Ichihus, 
the Greek word for fish. Jesus is sometimes called 
" Ichthus." The letters IHS placed over the head in figures 
of Jesus might mean " Ichthus, hominum salvator " (a 
Fish, the savior of men), for the Redeeming Principle of the 
race considered either generatively or regeneratively has its 
origin in the Fish-form. 

Jesus is the potency derived physically from the heart, 
spiritually from the soul of man. The various organs of the 
body represent his disciples — not the organs particularly 
so much as the transmuting essences, or secretions expressed 
by and through them. 

They, in co-operation with this Jesus potentiality, become 
" fishers of men " and fishers of fish at the same time, for 
the " fish " and the " men " are really one and the same 
thing occultly — the seed-germs, or spermatozoa. These 
are they which are caught in regenerative " nets," the 
net-work of capillaries, and blood vessels, and drawn up. 
The Seven Loaves are " seven bakings " of the divine Bread 
of Heaven, which Jesus declares himself to be. This, with 
a " few small fishes," is so " broken" in the process of re- 
demption that they feed a great multitude — of the body- 
cells, and it is true also that there are " fragments left over." 

It is a scientific fact, unknown to modern science, that 
this Solar Essence symboled by the Son of God, or Jesus 
incarnate, contains the Seed of Gold — not metaphysical or 
symbolic gold, but actual gold, such as is in use commercially. 
And this fact is the basis of the miracle that the followers of 
Hermes, the alchemists of the middle ages, performed, the 
miracle of [transmutation. Peter, the chief disciple of Jesus 
(identical with Petros, the Stone), is the foundation-prin- 
ciple of this philosophy. He represents the visible expression 
(the " spokesman ") of the unseen Christ-principle. It was, 

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as before mentioned, Peter who caught the fish which con- 
tained the " coin " with which Jesus paid his taxes. It was 
Peter who " went fishing " and discovered Jesus after his 
resurrection. It was Peter who drew the great draft of 
fishes. To Peter, after the fish had been "broiled and 
eaten," Jesus repeats three times that mystically significant 
admonition, " Feed my sheep! " Much is told in the sentence 
which follows: " Verily, verily I say unto thee. When thou 
wast young thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou 
wouldst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth 
thy hand and another shall gird thee.'^ 

The " man " referred to in the text is no individual man, 
but the essential life-principle of man. In youth, this begets 
its own body (girds itseK) from the external elements, but 
in old age, it must " reach forth its hands " — its desires — 
and ANOTHER (ever the redeeming Christ-power) will give 
it a new body (" another shall gird it "). The thought in 
this passage bears a close analogy in significance to that in 
the Nicodemus-Jesus controversy, where the former in- 
quires whether a man can be re-born when he is old. " An- 
other shall gird thee." This other is the Mother — the 
Divine-Feminine form encompassing. 

This thought is very difficult to grasp until every wheel 
in the mechanism and its proper movement is understood. 
It is impossible to understand any machine without setting 
to work and practically running it, and thus studying it day 
by day. No one can understand the simplest mathematical 
problem unless he works it out. All disquisition on a sub- 
ject of this kind will sound vague and abstruse until one sets 
to work to prove things, and to apply principles to his own 
practice. 

It is my aim first of all to bring the student down from the 
skies of imagination where for ages of incarnations he has 
been roaming about in search of heaven and happiness — 

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down to the one place where heaven actually is, the one 
place where true happiness may be found, and that is here on 
this earth, now, in this life, and in this body. All outside and 
beyond this is pure, metaphysical moonshine, which the 
LIGHT OF LIFE, once perceived, will dissipate. All scrip- 
tural texts and symbols are to point us to this Light, and give 
us assurance that we are not the first who have beheld it. 

Jesus says a very significant thing to Peter concerning 
John, the " beloved " disciple, if we can but construe it. 
He says, " If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to 
thee.f^ " Now what is the meaning of this.f^ Surely it cannot 
mean that John was to live till Jesus came again, a thousand 
years perhaps thereafter. Remember, this was said after 
the resurrection, as Jesus was about to " ascend into 
heaven." John, we must recollect, represents the organism 
and potential energy of generation, and is, as has been 
shown, the forerunner. He is the first expbessed, and 
must " tarry " till the " coming of the Lord," because the 
Lord's mission on earth (in the body) can only begin with 
John's baptism. That is to say, The administration of this 
rite gives him the needed power to go forth and conquer death! 

I am aware that my clerical critics will say that John 
the Evangelist, was a different person from John the Baptist, 
but we are not dealing here with historical characters. There 
is only one John principle, and that is presented under 
different aspects as different persons. 



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CHAPTER XIX 

LUZ, THE RESURRECTION BONE 

The ancient Hebrew writers declare that there is a bone 
called " Luz," which is the nucleus from which the body 
is reconstructed at the resurrection. 

Many marvelous stories are told concerning this bone, 
which was said to be indestructible — incapable of being 
destroyed by fire, water or any other agency. The Em- 
peror Hadrian once asked Rabbi Joshua how man was to 
be resurrected in the world to come, and the Rabbi replied, 
" From the bone, Luz, in the spinal colunm." To verify 
this, the Rabbi is said to have produced the bone so that 
the emperor might see it. When placed in water it was not 
softened; it was not destroyed by fire, nor crushed by any 
weight; when placed on an anvil and struck with a sledge 
hammer, the anvil was broken, but the bone remained in- 
tact. 

All this sounds like a fairy tale and is, no doubt, legend- 
ary; and yet, learned men in all times have been led to pay 
heed to it, and many have actually endeavored to locate 
this bone. Some have thought it to be near the base of the 
skull, others have identified it with the coccyx, or end of 
the spine, while others still have located it in the great toe! 

This search for the bone, " Luz " well illustrates the 
prevailing scientific method and the agreement of scientific 
theories. But let us run this legend down by the occult 
method, and see what is to be gotten out of it. 

The Scripture is full of allusions to bones and there is 

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always a hint or suggestion involved of some mystic and 
hidden potency connected therewith. Eve was first created 
from a hone of Adam. The bones of Elisha restored a dead 
man to life. In Proverbs, we read that, " The fear of the 
Lord shall be marrow (watering) to thy bones " — " Envy 
is rottenness of the bones " — "A good report maketh the 
bones fat " — "A broken spirit drieth the bones.'' Ezekiel's 
vision of the Valley of Dry Bones that were " breathed 
upon " by the Lord so that they stood upon their feet is 
most significant. Job speaks of the perfect man with 
" breasts full of milk and his bones moistened with marrow/' 
The Word of the Lord is compared to a " two edged sword 
that pierceth even to the dividing asunder the joints and 
marrow." And this phrase also has a deep significance, 
" Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit 
which is the word." Here we see salvation depending on 
the " word," which is the " sword." Job says, " Yea, the 
glittering sword cometh out of his galU' Moses says, 
" The Word is nigh to thee, even in thy mouth.'* 

All these passages certainly suggest some occult physio- 
logical secret. There will be those of my readers who will 
remember of having heard that the Word was " lost," but 
that a " substituted " word is given. The literal meaning 
of that word is " Great Bone." And I may say to you, 
brethren of the Rosy Cross, who alone perhaps will under- 
stand me, that this is identical with the bone, "Luz," lux, 
LIGHT. It is the " light shining in darkness," the Word, 
declared by the Holy Saint John to be " in the beginning " 
— to be "God." 

What IS the " beginning " of man? A Primitive Streak 
in the embryonal area, appearing about the twelfth day of 
gestation, marking out, like the finger of divinity upon the 
trestle-board, the line of the Spinal Column, that wonder- 
ful living center of illumination, that transformer of the 

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divine magnetic ray into the light of human life, to lighten 
him that is to come forth. 

Herein lies The Word. Its " substitute," or covering, or 
vehicle of expression, is the bone, in which are formed and 
created the blood-corpuscles. Physiologists are imited in 
believing that the Red Marrow of the bones is the principal 
source of the red corpuscles of the blood. In the foetus 
and the infant, the marrow of nearly all bones is red. In 
the adult it becomes yellow, the red marrow being con- 
fined to the cancellated structure of the short or flat bones. 
As is well known, the red corpuscles cause the absorption 
of oxygen from the air as it is drawn into the lungs by respi- 
ration, thus becoming the magnet to draw the " steel," 
which makes the " sword " which is the Word of God, 
hidden in the darkness of " Luz," the light! 

Thus we may understand why instinctively all people 
have had some superstitious reverence for " bones," and 
have continued to this day to preserve them sacredly in 
the belief that they would yet be resurrected and reclothed 
miraculously by some spiritual process, so that they might 
live again. This superstition may be shown scientifically 
to have a strong leg to stand upon, for the bones are actu- 
ally the vehicle of the spiritualized protoplasm from which 
the physical expressment, the body, and its vitality pro- 
ceed. 

Could this vitality be replenished in some manner from 
some source it would mean the permanent expression of 
LIFE IN THE BODY. The fact that it is abundant in infancy 
and youth and less abundant in old age, as attested by the 
coincident phenomena of the red marrow which becomes 
gradually yellow in more advanced life, has opened our eyes 
to the point of being able to place our finger upon the vul- 
nerable spot of Achilles. 

The connection existing between the mind and the marrow 

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was perceived by the Psalmist, who thus showed himself 
to be a more scientific scientist even than Mrs. Eddy or 
any of her followers — that is, he was a keener analyst. 
But we must admit that Christian Science and Mental 
Science with all their shortcomings have been the great 
pioneers to this later unf oldment, inasmuch as they were the 
first in these later times to bring to notice and emphasize 
the importance of the mind's influence over matter. We 
will not here stop to argue whether there is any " matter " 
or not — it does not matter! 

But this much has been revealed to us in the new Light 
of Life, that it is not the cold, " mental " aflSrmation that 
brings " health to the bones " and " watering to the mar- 
row." It is the soul-joy, the heart-satisfaction, it is love 
iacPBESSED IN THE LIFE that docs this! 

But, as has already been shown, this joy is but transient 
and ephemeral in the life living on the plane of generation 
— it is there a joy followed by grief — pleasure mixed with 
pain — and the whole eventually turned to bitterness and 
gall. It can only become perfect joy in the Regeneration. 
In that state shall the marrow of the bones be infused with 
the true spiritual essence, the Word of God, which will go 
forth continually as a " glittering sword," not at first to 
bring peace, but warfare and subjugation of the sin-soaked 
tissues of the degenerate physical body. For this has to be 
thoroughly reconstructed and the process involves both a 
tearing down and a rebuilding. New Wine cannot be put 
into old bottles. These results are strictly physiological, 
but they are perceivable mentally. The process of breaking 
down old planes and creating in their stead a " new heaven 
and a new earth " is graphically described in the Apocalypse 
of St. John. When all is fulfilled, the River of Life, now 
foul and muddy, flows out pure from the Throne of God and 
the Lamb, the Red and the White uniting in one blessed 

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Fountain of Life, from which man drinks at will and lives 
on and on into the ages. 

" Ho! every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he 
that hath no moneys come ye, buy and eat; come buy toine and 
milk without money and vnthout price! " 



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THE FOOD OF REGENERATION 

" Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou or- 
dained Strength^ saith the Lord^ 

Milk is mythically mentioned as one of the principal 
foods of the regenerate race. The Israehtes were promised 
a " land flowing with milk and honey," — milk being the 
visible expressment of the mystic manna. That promise 
belongs to us, for we are the Chosen People. 

There are a number of very mystical passages in the 
Bible pointing to this symbol. Job says, " Hast thou not 
poured me out as milk and curdled me as cheese? Thou hast 
clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with 
bones and sinews," — really a very graphic description and 
not wholly metaphorical. It was the woman Jael who gave 
milk to Sisera, the captain of the enemy's hosts, whereupon 
he slept and was killed so that the enemy could be routed. 
For this act her praises were sung and she was declared to 
be "blessed above women in the tent!" When Abraham 
entertained three angels he set before them soured and sweet 
milk. Moses enumerates among the foods that Jehovah 
had given the people, that of " soured milk of kine and 
goat's milk." 

The curdled milk, or Leben — " Leben Raib " it is called 
in Egypt — is still offered the traveler by the Bedouin 
Arabs as one of their chief delicacies. It is made of the 
soured milk of buffalos and goats. In Russia they use a form 
of soured milk boiled with yeast, called " prostokwacha." 

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The Tartars use " kephir," cow's milk, and " koumiss," 
mare's milk fermented. In tropical Africa the chief diet 
of certain tribes is soured milk. All these people who use 
milk in this form enjoy excellent health and often live to an 
advanced age. This is particularly noticeable in Bulgaria, 
where the food of the peasant-class consists principally 
of black bread and " yarhouth," a form of soured milk. 
Here we find the people to be very robust, many instances 
of extreme old age being reached. One old lady was found 
there 158 years of age, and a man also who had reached the 
age of 111 years. 

Prof. Metchnikow, from whose excellent work, " The 
Prolongation of Life," the above examples are cited, made 
some very extended experiments with lactic acid, which is 
the active principle of sour milk, and found it most effica- 
cious in arresting and counteracting bacterial growths, 
which he alleges to be one of the chief reasons for the health- 
bestowing qualities of milk, as an article of diet. 

The most ordinary reason should teach one that milk is 
normally the purest and most natural of foods. It is the 
direct product of the most nutritious elements of the blood, 
prepared by nature in her own alembic, by her own secret 
alchemic process, for the purpose of supplying to the tender, 
growing infant the most perfect food possible. The growth 
produced in infancy during the nursing period is marvelous 
as compared with the growth in later years, when the young 
animal or the child is put on a diet of common, coarse foods. 
A calf, a little over one year old, was recently exhibited 
which weighed 1,000 pounds — more, in fact, than its 
mother. The calf had been left to run with the cow, and 
derived all, or nearly all, its food from that source. All 
observations seem to bear out the theory of Metchnikow 
and others that milk is the most natural food of man, and 
this will be especially true of the " re-bom man," the man 

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who through re-generation has returned to the " childlike 
state " spoken of by Christ. 

" In mother milk there is a three-fold life; 
An angel-essence, like the morning beam 
In clearness, mingles with the tranquil stream. 
The elements that make the souls of doves 
Flow through her being to the infant's heart." 

It is well known that the milk of the mother is much af- 
fected by her physical condition and especially by her 
state of mind, and that the child imbibes this along with 
the milk, becoming fretful and peevish, or happy and con- 
tented, accordingly. 

If it can be shown that milk is the proper food for the 
regenerate man, then it is apparent that means must be 
devised to ensure the milk's being pure. When we realize 
that the milk from the cow may and often does contain 
tuberculosis or other deadly germs, and that diseases even 
may be contracted by the child at the mother's breast, 
we see that the purification of this essential food-product 
becomes a most vital matter. Goat's milk is superior to 
cow's milk, being always pure and most nearly like human 
milk. 

We have seen that the trend of nature is towards puri- 
fication and perfection, since she contains within herself 
the means for attaining this end. The Elixir NaturoB, or 
Vital Ambrosia, prepared in the secret Vase of Art, and 
there properly concocted, is potent to purify and perfect 
the quality of all secretions, including the milk. As the 
Scripture says, " For with thee is a Fountain of Life; and in 
thy light we shall see Light." 

There is no way to renew the natural body except to 
feed it. All growth is by accretion. A great deal of argu- 
ment and controversy has been and is being indulged in 

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concerning the comparative nutritive value of foods, and 
very diverse conclusions have been reached. Some believe 
that a strictly vegetable diet is best, some believe in a diet 
of flesh, while others advocate a mixed diet. However, 
the question of diet, like morality, does not appear to 
seriously affect longevity. You find some centenarians 
who have all their lives indulged in tea, coffee, tobacco, and 
whiskey, who have eaten everything indiscriminately from 
raw turnips to pickled tripe, having broken nearly all the 
commandments of the decalogue with impunity, while you 
also find plenty of good, moral, abstemious people, sickly, 
or dying off before the half -century mark. 

It seems that the question of food consumption comes 
under the head of " doubtful disputations." Paul says, 
" For one believeth he may eat all things, another, who is 
weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth, despise him 
that eateth not, and let not him which eateth not judge 
him that eateth. Let every man be fully persuaded in 
HIS OWN MIND . . . unto the pure all things are pure, unto 
them defiled, nothing is pure! " Jesus also said that it was 
not what went into the mouth but that which came out 
that defiled the man. And this, too, may have a much 
deeper meaning than appears on the surface. 

One of the best written, and most sensible articles I have 
ever read on this subject is entitled " Problems of Die- 
tetics," published in Life and Action for November, 1910 
(The Indo- American Magazine Co., Chicago). In this 
article the writer, Henry Lindhahr, M.D., states that " In 
the animal food problem is involved the ' proteid question.' 
For many years there has been waged a battle royal not 
only among vegetarians, but also among medical authori- 
ties, over the amount of proteid materials desirable in a 
normal diet. Some advocate the use of a large quantity 
of proteids, not only in the diet of the healthy, but as a means 

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of cure, and for * building up ' invalids, especially in the 
treatment of tuberculosis." 

The doctor goes on to show that this orthodox notion is 
entirely wrong, since animals in freedom build up splendid 
bodies mainly on nutritious grasses, poor in proteids. 
" Milk also," he says, " the perfect food prepared by nature 
for the growing animal and infant, contains only ^ to 4 per 
cent, of proteids." 

"Protein being essentially a tissue-building material, 
it would be thought," says the writer, " that the young and 
growing animal would require more proteid than the adult. 
The latest revelations of chemical analysis and physiological 
experiments show that in the adult only 4 per cent, of the 
daily food is tissue-building, while 96 per cent, is required 
for the production of heat and energy." 

" Therefore, instead of being the most desirable element, 
proteids are a danger food, since in the digestive processes, 
they produce the poisonous acids and alkaloids which are 
the underlying causes of the majority of human diseases." 

" The authorities of the German School of natural die- 
tetics claim that the streams of energy which the sun sends 
to our earth are transmuted into chemical energy; food, 
then, is sun-energy, and living beings are indeed Children 
of the Sun. In the vegetable kingdom only, the springs are 
wound which drive the mechanism of life. Vegetarians 
derive their energy direct^from Nature, while meat-eaters 
obtain energy in a weakened form." 

In opposition to this, Dr. Lindhahr says: *'' All this 
reasoning seems plausible and has served well the advocates 
of a strictly vegetarian diet, but unfortunately their argu- 
ments are based on false premises and therefore untenable." 

" The fallacy of their reasoning is due to the fact that the 
energies at work in the vegetable kingdom are not, by any means, 
the highest force on this planet. . . . There is a quality of 

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energy in animal food which cannot be derived from vege- 
table food, and this something is the animal life-principle, 
animal magnetism, or in other words, a higher and more 
refined range of vibratory activity than those animating 
the lower kingdoms." 

Both sides of this argument contain part of the truth and 
a part only. All the contestants, I am sure, are looking for 
light — the Light of Life. This is, indeed, to be found in 
sunlight, and, so far as its incorporation into organic matter 
is concerned, it has its evolution, expressible as grades of 
vitality or vibrational force, as Dr. Lindhahr senses. But 
in the practice of the Great Art which modern chemistry 
does not know, I have discovered something new, and that 
is that inorganic matter may be so manipulated by art as 
to awaken within it a slumbering force which, once liberated 
and set in action, produces a certain spontaneous evolution 
in or of the original matter — an evolution that involves 
the successive dissolutions and recombinations of the ele- 
ments through a line of ever progressive phenomena in which 
the matter assumes a variety of states and forms analogous 
to those perceived in exterior nature. And that, finally, 
when the ultimate has been reached in the re-organization 
of the inorganic or mineral elements, we have at last a 
Substance evolved actually to the same plane of " vibratory 
motion " or vibrational potentiality as man himself — and 
one found to be congenial to his organism, having power to 
reconstruct him molecularly. 

Working from this discovery, I have made another which 
I believe to be wholly original, and this is that man contains 
within himself the same potential natural elements which 
may be combined sexually in a similar manner to produce 
even a higher degree of perfectioning metabolism in the 
bodily tissues and structures than that which it is possible 
to produce even by the " Medicine of the Wise," as under- 

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stood and taught by the early alchemists, like Paracelsus, 
Lully, Sendivogius, Philalethes and others. 

By the exercise of this natural art, man is able to create 
within himself an " animal magnetism " which becomes the 
real, vital nutrient, infusing into himself new life, and restor- 
ing impaired bodily functions and conditions. In plain 
words, regardless of what man eats and assimilates on the 
first, natural plane, he is able on the higher plane of Regen- 
eration to practically " eat himself over," thus raising the 
vibratory scale of his organism and being, at will. 

The whole principle and secret of the matter lies, after 
all, in nutrition. The German School is right in declaring 
that sun-energy is converted into vitality. So it is. But 
the highest potential of the sun-energy is stored within the 
earth, or the physical body derived from the earth, ready at 
the signal from the " wand of Moses " to spring forth and 
afford new life to the famishing desert-dwellers — the cells 
of the mortal body. 

The proper use of milk, as an article of diet, will unques- 
tionably give to this " Sim Warrior " a more ethereal, more 
refined, more dehcate, and more sensitive vehicle for ex- 
pression — one more easily " torn and distributed " among 
the " Centurions of Caesar," — the physical organs under 
control of the Will. This, indeed, is the " seamless robe " 
of the Christ, which, like the coat of Joseph, is woven of 
many colors. 



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THE SUN -CLOTHED WOMAN 

'^ And there appeared a Great Wonder in Heaven; A 
Woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under her Feet, and 
upon her Head a Crown of Twelve Stars.'* 

The Woman of the Apocalypse is represented as being 
" with child," and about to bring forth a man-child who is 
to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Another " wonder," 
is then shown in the shape of a " great red dragon " which 
stands ready to devour the child when it shall be born. 
The dragon " persecutes " the woman by casting out of his 
mouth WATER as a flood to carry her away. But the Earth 
helps the woman by swallowing up the Dragon's flood, and 
the Woman is given great wings with which she escapes from 
the serpent's persecution. 

In this wonderful allegory, we again have the whole story 
of Regeneration repeated. The Woman is " clothed with the 
sun " when she has become imbued with the divine Solar 
Ray and its potency — when the womb of every cell in her 
body has become impregnated with the Light of Life through 
regenerative interaction — something which requires a 
definite period of time, " a time and times and half a time," 
depending altogether upon the perfection of existing con- 
ditions. When so crowned, she has the " moon " curse 
under foot, having mastered it, and is then able to bring 
forth within the body of man a perfect offspring. The wife 
becomes the mother, the husband the son, who is the true 
** Son of Man " — the Son of God! 

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The description of St. John in Revelations relates not 
solely to the finished realization, but depicts the several 
steps thereto. The " Great Red Dragon " is the blood. The 
pain that results from the extra inflow of life consequent 
on the regenerative action, which passes from plane to 
plane downwards, as has been explained, dissolving the 
original formation that it may build anew, all this is myth- 
ically described as the " war in heaven " between Michael 
and the Dragon. It is, however, through these very so- 
called " persecutions " of the serpent that the Woman is 
crowned, and rendered competent to become the Mother of 
God. 

*'And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven , Now is 
come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God " — 
all of which comes about through the crowning of the woman, 
by which she is enabled to bring forth this wondrous " man- 
child." 

This, the period of the Full Moon, is the time in nature 
when the air is laden with ozone and all vegetation grows 
apace; it is the period of high tides. The moon is the 
ruler of woman in generation, but in the Regeneration, 
woman rules the moon, controlling the " tides," and causing 
them to wash upon her shores golden sands, rich jewels, 
beautiful corals! 

It is during this sub-lunar Feast in the time of the Full 
Moon that the Serpent or Ananta-principle, is " raised," 
and the Christ ascends to the Father, and rules the " na- 
tions," and all things are in a state of joy. 

This period corresponds to the Three Days that Jonah 
remains in the Whale's belly, similarly as the Son of Man lies 
in the Heart of the Earth, at the close of which comes the 
Resurrection, taking place on the morn after the third day, 
* * * Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth, good will 
to men! 

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A thousand questions will spring to the lips concerning 
hem all this is to be accomplished, and a thousand singular, 
and differing ideas will doubtless be conjured up. But really, 
if we get down to the natural, physical plane, there need 
be no confusion or ambiguity. The simple rule of Jesus 
is quite sufficient to be followed: " Plant the seed, sleep, 
trust! " or that of Paul is more definite: " I have planted, 
Apollos watered, but God giveth the increase," 

The Qabbalah says when Matronitha, the mother, is 
joined to the King in the excellence of the Sabbath, then all 
the universe is in a state of joy. This is that ideal state 
promised the Saints of the Most High. In this state they 
are above and beyond all terrestrial laws. " He giveth his 
angels charge concerning them lest at any time they dash 
their foot against a stone." Thus they are protected from 
all accidents, and every petition which in thai state they lay 
before the throne will be answered! This is the condition for 
true " demonstration," that which our New Thought 
friends perceive from the promises of Jesus to be logically 
possible, without, however, having discovered the real, 
secret science of how it becomes possible. 

Mrs. Eddy sensed a great truth, and one for which really 
the whole world is famishing, and on her conception of this 
truth she has erected a beautiful arch admired and rever- 
enced by many who pass beneath it, but the arch lacks one 
thing — the key-stone, the same that the original builders 
rejected and threw out amid the refuse. Without this, the 
arch must eventually fall, like every other existing church 
institution — fall and crumble into dust, to be scattered by 
the four winds of heaven. 

The very greatest thing that Christian Science, or its 
founder, has done for the human race is to help re-establish 
Woman in her rightful place on a throne of equality with 
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a sensual and vicious priesthood dragged her down into a 
position worse than slavery and left her helpless, the prey 
and plaything of a race of bigots worshiping a Male Deity 
whose attributes devoid of femininity were those of a fiend 
— a god of hate, jealousy, murder and rapine! 

But in her new position, adored by men as the newly dis- 
covered Queen of Life, let not woman become inflated with 
the same vainglorious delusion that for so many ages has 
dominated her Lord and Master, man, and placed her in 
subjection. Let her not be swayed by the adulation and 
flattery which she receives into imagining herself the Whole 
Thing of life and existence. She is simply half the world, 
and as much dependent on the other half as ever she was. 
She has her place — a beautiful place — a vastly different 
place from what she has occupied in the past. Let her 
learn that place and fill it! 

Woman is the feeder, the creator, the savior of man, yet 
apart from her creation, she is as a soul without a body, 
a spirit without life. She can never set up a kingdom inde- 
pendent of man, for without his support, his life, and the 
redeeming influx of his vital spirit, she is lost and sinks to 
perdition. 

Her true mission is a most wonderful one, and she should 
become exactly conscious of it and make no mistakes. Her 
responsibility is also great. She leads, the man follows. 
He ascends or descends socially and morally, physically 
and intellectually to her level. She is the magnet which 
draws and determines his place. His destiny is in her 
hands. 

When two of opposite sex are inharmoniously related, and 
physically bound by the inexorable and insensate law, 
everything that makes life worth living for either fails. K 
she be the lower, or less unfolded of the two, she blunts his 
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from this to that Hke a rudderless bark. If she have no 
aspirations beyond ensuring her own maintenance, her 
own personal comfort, as so many have not, she will devote 
her entire thought to ways and means for " holding " the 
man, or keeping him " safe " to herself, simply in order to 
remain the recipient of his benefactions. This, of course, 
is but an exemplification of the primitive law of self-preser- 
vation, but the idea of " woman's dependency " operates 
here to make a race of apathetic slaves of those who, by 
virtue of their inherent qualities, should be the Queens of 
the Earth. 

Ignorant of all thought and idea of Regeneration, woman 
on this plane lives a purely narrow, selfish life, enlarged 
only a little by the advent of children coming to her, but even 
these usually serve to widen the breach existing between 
the man and woman, adding another rivet to the manacles 
of their united fate. 

By this I do not mean that a certain aiffection may not 
survive the coming of children, nor that children are not 
frequently desired and welcome. What I do mean is that 
children, instead of being the " bond of affection " they are 
presumed to be, virtually weaken the love-force that prima- 
rily exists between the sexes, so that generation is always 
to be regarded in the light of a sacrifice — of the higher for 
the lower. 

And if parents are inharmoniously related and attempt 
to bring children into the world under those conditions, 
that is, indeed, a crime, and no place where such a tragedy 
is enacted is worthy to be called " home." On the contrary, 
if man and woman are harmoniously related on all planes 
of their being, their thoughts become creative, all their 
aspirations and hopes come into fruition, success crowns 
their every effort. 

It is really suicidal, and society will yet wake up to the 

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fact, for any person to feel himself or herself compelled by 
law or otherwise to associate intimately with one of the 
opposite sex whom he or she dislikes or despises. If the 
two natures are incompatible for any cause, and the per- 
sonalities mutually repugnant, it is disgraceful, and should 
be accounted disreputable, for such persons to live together 
in the relation of man and wife. And if they continue to 
do so, no matter how skilfully they may conceal the true 
condition from the world, they but " sow to the devil " 
and will eventually reap hell — the more hell the longer they 
sow. 

There are many instances, where, after a time, one party 
or the other becomes conscious of an existing incompati- 
bility — with a sort of growing repugnance and horror — 
until finally the relationship becomes unbearable. At the 
same time, the other party may be asleep, or apathetic — 
unable to sense the condition, or, for selfish reasons, ignoring 
it. In that case, as when Potiphar's wife clung to Joseph, 
it is his duty to flee, leaving his garment behind, if neces- 
sary, hut to escape at all hazards! The end justifies the means, 
seK-preservation the precipitancy. 

Society at large in its hypocritical self-righteousness, 
aflfects to ignore the fact of sexual antipathies, and points 
the finger of scorn and condemnation at the man or woman 
who has the moral stamina to slip from under the galling 
yoke of humiliated pride and wounded self-respect endured 
in an inharmonious marital relation — the courage to stand 
for personal freedom, truth and honor. But society does 
this on the same principle that the burglar jumps into the 
crowd and cries, "Stop thief!" — simply to divert atten- 
tion from himself. Verily, it were better not to raise the 
mantle that hides the realness of this carping, critical 
world! 

There are some notable and noble instances of individuals 

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willingly surrendering their claims to another, for whom 
it became manifest that the companion had a greater affinity. 
Thus Ruskin gave up his wife to Millet. Instances have 
come to notice where two people who had lived together 
for years became conscious of their physical inharmonious- 
ness and mental incompatibility, and mutually decided to 
separate amicably and seek their proper mates. Such 
people are beginning to recognize the higher truth as mani- 
fested by their willingness to follow its leadings. 

And so it will be when people generally come into the 
Regeneration, beholding in all its glory the Light of Life. 
There will then be an end to all this marital wrangling and 
bickering, this fighting for supposed " rights " and recogni- 
tions — all of which belong to the lower, primitive plane 
where property and children come in for adjustment. 

And this you call " free love.^ " I call it freedom in 
IX)VE, a condition which must obtain if humanity is to 
accelerate its progress towards the goal of the ideal beyond 
a snail's pace. Christ said, " I came not to send peace, but 
a sword! " Peace can only result on the lower planes from 
a vigorous use of the sword of truth. So let the sword do 
its work, " dividing asunder the soul and spirit." Let the 
truth become manifest and let it prevail! 

Why do people desire to live a lie, and continue on living 
it.f^ Why do they wiKully sacrifice to pretension and sham 
a life that should be devoted to the attainment of the ideals 
of truth and nobility.^ It is because they are slaves to pride 
and trucklers to public opinion. From the cradle to the 
grave they do nothing but the lock-step with the social 
gang to which they are morally handcuffed and chained. 
They wear the same hair-cut, the same stripes — eat the 
same foods, drink the same drinks, make the same grimaces 
and genuflexions — in fact, perform all the antics necessary 
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prior to their evolution into real manhood and womanhood, 
which after incarnations of inane conformity may happen. 
" Whoever," said Emerson, " would be a man must be a 
non-conformist." 

The people of the Regeneration will break loose from such 
bondages. These people are the natural product of the free 
air of our glorious Republic which has evolved them as a 
superior race of beings. Although starting at Plymouth with 
the most into erant and prudish ancestry that ever the sun 
shone upon, by reason of which many of us are still streaked 
with prurient blood, yet the ideals of freedom and liberty 
that we have so long fought to establish politically have 
proved our conversion to quite an extent socially, and to- 
day we dare to think and to speak as a hundred years ago 
we would by no means have dared. 

However, the advancing minority needs beware lest the 
apish flukes and flunkies of effete monarchism together with 
the ignorant sycophants of autocratic ecclesiasticism do 
not snatch from them the torch of progress and trample 
it under foot. They will try hard in every way to do this — 
by subtle political intrigue, by unholy capitalistic combina- 
tion — but in the end they will not succeed, for we are 
entering the Age of Regeneration, and Freedom. 

Do not, dear reader, get the notion from this Declaration 
of Independence that the Regeneration Movement is at all 
likely to upset society by causing any general upheaval, 
to the end that that people now in the enjoyment (?) of 
distasteful domesticity or corroding conjugality will forth- 
with suddenly proceed to separate and look up new affini- 
ties, for nothing of the kind is likely to happen — not 
for a thousand years! 

The very people that Regeneration would really benefit 
most, are the very ones who from their inherited prejudices 
are least likely to investigate or adopt it. Such is the per- 

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versity of human nature, and the prime cause of its eternal 
stagnation and misery. 

It is really a fearful fact to contemplate that in the present 
society, living as people live, probably ninety per cent, of 
them are unhappy, and a great many of them utterly mis- 
erable and wretched in the marital relation; and, were it 
not for conditions that appear to bind them inexorably 
to their fate, they would indeed be glad to escape it all and 
be free. 

I know, if you put it to open vote, you will get no such 
response from people generally, for it is a part of their 
misery, and often the hardest part, that they dare not confess 
it openly. But there are private confessions enough on 
record to prove the proposition without great contro- 
versy. 

It is also true that, taking these same unhappy ones, had 
they understood and practised Regeneration from the first 
days of their married Hves, conditions might be exactly 
reversed, and a large majority of them be now contented 
and happy in their relations. And even today, were the 
practice of the Immortalizing Principle understood, those 
that have become disgruntled and dyspeptic through eating 
for many long years of the bitter fruit of generation and 
inhaling its noxious perfumes and vitiated exhalations 
through dissipation and sexual excesses might, a goodly 
number of them, be restored to conditions of health and 
happiness. 

So that the introduction of E-egeneration at any given 
time anywhere is bound to be ameliorative and productive 
of reform in the present condition of things; and this, of 
course, just in proportion as the idea is successfully grasped 
and faithfully worked out in the lives of individuals. Even 
if taken up by only a very few, as is likely to be the case at 
first, since it is practically a New Thing in the world of 

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thought and action, it will, in time, prove to be the leaven 
to leaven the entire lump of humanity. 

It is the only principle ever discovered which has in it 
the possibility of bringing to pass the long expected Millen- 
nium, and the actual realization of that glorious prophecy 
of Isaiah: 

f " For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth : 
and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into 
mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I 
create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her 
people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy 
in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more 
heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 

" There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor 
an old man that hath not filled his days : for the child shall die 
an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years 
old shall be accursed. And they shall build houses and 
inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the 
fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; 
they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a 
tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy 
the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor 
bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed 
of the Lord, and their offspring with them. 

" And it shall come to pass that before they call, I wiU 
answer; and while they are yet speaking, / vnll hear. The 
wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the hon shall 
eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's 
meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy 
MOUNTAIN, saith the Lord! " 

tl This prophecy is not one that man need wait aeons to 
realize. It can be realized now by any who will. In the life 
of theRegeneration, there is promised longevity and fecundity 
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an end of destruction and an era of re-construction — of 
peace and joy and rejoicing! Is not this something worth 
contemplating? It is indeed no idle dream, no fabled Utopia, 
no fairy tale — it is a fact, as much a fact as that the sun 
shines, or that the tree comes into leaf, flower and fruitage. 
" He that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the 
end, to him I will give power over the nations: and he 
shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter 
shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my 
Father. And I will give him the morning star." He that 
overcometh what? — Generation! 



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THE BEAST AND ITS IMAGE 

" And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a Beast 
rise up out of the Sea. . . . And behold another Beast coming 
up out of the Earth — saying to them that dwell on the earth 
that they should make an image to the Beast,'^ 

In the old days when the evangelist came round to the 
country church and exhorted through a series of " pro- 
tracted meetings," every one in the neighborhood felt the 
" power " and got converted, went forward, were prayed for, 
and if it " stuck," were baptized and taken into the fold. 
Nearly every one has been through that experience, and no 
one at the time but what felt something tugging away at 
him inside and inciting him to make the move. 

The Old Toper, the morally derelict, whom everybody 
in the neighborhood had given up for a bad lot long ago, 
came also. The preacher got his eye on the hardened old 
sinner and at last " fetched him " too, and there was general 
rejoicing over the great outpouring of the Lord's spirit. 

Now, what did we, including the Old Toper, set about 
doing after we " got religion? " We began to reform, to 
change our habits. The cardinal sins, chewing, smoking 
and drinking, which through the oft-repeated, virulent de- 
nunciations of the circuit preachers had grown in our con- 
sciousness since childhood, until they appeared as enormous 
crimes — these had to go first. 

It was hard on the Old Toper, but he manfully smashed 

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his last bottle and laid up his pipe on the mantel, though 
somewhat mournfully. Some of us who had not arrived 
at the extreme limit of moral obliquity where we so much 
as knew the taste of tobacco or whiskey, proceeded to 
" break off " tea and coffee, as the greatest sacrifice which 
we could think of to offer the Lord upon the altar of a con- 
trite heart! 

And so the wave of reform sweeps on. Enemies become 
reconciled. Jim Smith goes over and pays his neighbor, Sam 
Henderson, four dollars for the fence which his (Jim's) hogs 
broke down when they got into Sam's corn, and which they 
had been at law and loggerheads over for the past two years. 
Maria Jenkins goes and asks Sally Snodgrass' pardon for the 
mean things she had been a-saying about her. 

I need not draw the picture beyond the spasmodic, emo- 
tional outpouring to the point where the " backsliding " 
begins. The illustration suffices to show that the awakening 
conscience manifests itself naturally in an impulse towards 
reform. When the mind is brought into subjection and 
made still by the exercise of the emotions, the soul begins 
the restoration of the physical harmony by the correcting 
of bad habits. Despite the dogma of religion that ignores 
" good works " in its plan of salvation, we note that the 
very first impulse one has in coming under the influence of 
the religious emotion is to do some good thing, to atone for 
some wrong done, to begin a personal reformation, in fact. 

But the old religion which features morality as an exhibit 
merely, is based fundamentally on voluntary renunciation, 
on the force of the will, on prohibition, on the thou-shalt- 
not, on the Devil-Mind. Thus morality as the world under- 
stands it today is one long continued struggle and fight 
against unnatural appetites and their gratification. In the 
New Religion there is no necessity for any such renunciation 
or prohibition. We rise through an understanding of this 

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truth from the plane of negation to that of pure aflSrmation. 
The transformation of the life is effected by love, which is 
demonstrated to be the fulfilling of the whole law, as Jesus 
declared. 

By yielding fully and freely to the higher impulses of the 
Divine Soul, we satisfy even the Devil-Mind, and beget no 
opposition or struggle. No battle is necessary to be waged 
with any of the many " evils " which now harass the in- 
dividual and perplex society under the reign of coercion, 
since the inner desire for the things creating the evil drops 
away and disappears naturally. 

Thus Regeneration marks the end of the reign of force 
and ushers in the reign of peace. As long as the W. C. T. U.'s 
and the Y. M. C. A.'s, the churches and the Law and Order 
societies, the police and the courts, materia medica and the 
standing army, have to constantly array themselves against 
this gigantic " dragon of Evil " that appears stalking about 
on all sides, spitting forth broods of lesser dragons, from in- 
finitesimal microbes to armored dreadnaughts — as long as 
we are compelled to maintain this vast armament of oppo- 
sition to evil, it means that there is something " rotten in 
Denmark," which we are not going about sanely to smell 
out, but continue barking away at like a blind puppy. 

So long as we chop off the heads of this hydra, we may 
continue to chop them off, and they will grow two in place 
of one. The trouble is, we never do get at the real root 
of the matter, and shall not, probably, till some valiant 
St. George comes along, who, knowing the vulnerable spot 
in the Beast's anatomy, has courage and strength enough 
to dispatch it. 

The cause of all the " evil " in this world — the very life, 
breath, and sustenance of the Dragon itself — is SEX. It 
was said of the fabled Dragon of old that it required a fresh 
maiden daily to satisfy its voracious maw. The maw of the 

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old sex-dragon requires not one, but a hundred maidens 
— not daily, but every hour, and as many youths — all 
sacrificed at the shrine of Moloch, fed to the Dragon of 
Sex! 

Near the giant figures of the stone gods on Easter Island, 
explorers have imearthed catacombs containing the skele- 
tons of thousands of females, all of whom bear evidence of 
having been strangled by some ancient, barbaric people 
as sacrifices to these gods. We civilized people look upon 
a thing like that with horror, not stopping to consider that 
we virtually do the same thing right along in another way. 
Our way seems perfectly righteous to us, sanc*tified as it is 
by our religion, but so undoubtedly seemed the way of the 
Island-dwellers to them. 

What do I mean by this strange comparison .f* I mean 
just this. Collect all the skeletons of females sacrificed to 
the god of Lust in any one country or state during one year, 
and you would have a most uncanny heap. Collect them 
for a century from the whole land and they would form a 
Caesar's Column higher than modem engineering could 
hoist them! 

Nor need you make up your collection from those com- 
paratively few strewn along the Great White Way. You 
may look for them in respectable cemeteries, finding them 
among the married as among the single — in fact, when you 
are done, if you have done your work thoroughly, you will 
have well depopulated the Field of Death, since there will 
be few, very few, of the death's heads that fall into your 
hands that will not bear the mark of the Beast, or its Image. 

One may possibly think, not having thought very much 
on the subject, that all this is gross exaggeration; but I 
tell you, if the secret annals of the stage, of business, of 
society, of the church even could be written out, it would 
be seen that the chief, ulterior occupation of humanity 

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today, as it ever has been, is the quest of sexual gratifica- 
tion, heedless of the wreck and ruin it entails. Nor is this 
occupation by any means confined to the demi-monde or 
the so-called " profesh " — these are but the dregs after 
the glass has been drained. 

If I take you to where the glass is being filled for the first 
time, where the bubbles and froth and foam of intoxication 
rise to burn into the soul and awaken delusive desires, you 
will, I am sure, be shocked and horrified to find how many 
respectables — judges, merchants, politicians, priests and 
pedagogues — sit at the feast of Bacchante, lobster and terra- 
pin, and pursue this agreeable and exciting noctm-nal pas- 
time, while tomorrow, sitting in their respective seats of 
influence, they pronounce sentence, mete out condemnation, 
preach long sermons or exude pious homilies on the " evils 
of temptation " and the fatal consequences of yielding 
thereto. 

If medical men, who from their position it would seem 
ought to be the priests of the people's health, would speak 
out openly from the abundance of their observation and 
experience, they might be the evangels of enlightenment to 
the populace, and thus become a mighty factor in the reform 
of these common abuses. But unfortunately, either from 
apathy or from fear of becoming unpopular with their 
clients and colleagues, they seem to prefer to remain silent 
and reap a harvest from the mending of broken vessels. 

There are, to be sure, many noble exceptions to this 
rule. One that comes to mind is William H. Walling, M. D., 
professor in several Philadelphia medical institutions, who 
has recently published a little book, entitled " Sexology " 
(Puritan Pub. Co., Phila.), in which this subject is handled 
without gloves but purely, of course, from the medical 
practitioner's standpoint. The prevalence of the evil of 
solitary abuse in the young of both sexes, as well as the enor- 

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mity of the crime of marital ignorance, is graphically and 
strongly set forth. After reading such a book, one wonders 
no longer why the jails and sanitariums and asylums 
are full, or why the divorce courts are worked over 
time. 

Prof. Walling shows how that the fondest love may be 
changed to loathing, and the romance of a life shrivel into a 
horrible nightmare in a single day, thus blighting the hopes 
and happiness of a loving heart forever — and all to gratify 
the desire of a very ignorant and brutal human who may, 
withal, be a very genteel, amiable and thoroughly respectable 
individual in the social and business world, but, through 
ignorance, wholly unconscious of the real enormity of the 
crime against nature which he has committed, or of the 
death knell that he has already sounded to his own future 
happiness. He shows further how that the growing passions 
of adolescence lead to the development of pernicious habits 
destructive to health and mentahty, ending frequently in 
paralysis, insanity and death. 

These facts are known to every physician. They are 
observable by any one who studies people and faces. But 
parents usually are as blissfully unconscious of the ravages 
which unsatiated sex-passion is making upon their children 
as they are that their own example frequently becomes the 
incentive and justification to the children for their practices 
— that is to say, they are as unconscious of the sins of their 
children as of their own. 

After all, would the dissemination of warning literature 
on this subject do very much towards accompHshing a 
reformation of existing evils, even supposing that such 
literature should be generally circulated, which it is not 
likely to be with the present prevalence of prurient notions 
and prurient laws? Really, to point out an evil by calling 
attention to it openly in press, pulpit or on the stage appears 

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to have the effect of augmenting it, unless at the same time 
a satisfactory remedy be suggested for the evil. 

And what can be the remedy for the universal abuse and 
misuse of this holiest of functions? Henry Ward Beecher 
suggested early marriage. Many are under the illusion 
that moral and spiritual education is the only means of 
mitigating the evil, yet among the morally educated we find 
perhaps the most frequent lapses from virtue. 

The truth is this, that in this as in all our moral tinkering 
we persistently ignore nature and endeavor to set aside her 
laws, or force them into harmony with our own preconceived 
notions of things, while nature quietly goes ahead to de- 
monstrate her dominance, and in the end we have our trouble 
for our pains. 

With all possible enlightenment, and the exercise of the 
most ideal discretion, the expression of sex on the ordinary 
plane is hound to have its evil consequences and all efforts 
to correct these by teaching, preaching or legislating will 
fall short of accomplishing anything more than enforced 
repression — a spasmodic reform, or checking up, in certain 
quarters for awhile, when the pent-up evil will again explode 
and scatter its contagion broadcast so that the work of the 
reformers has to be all done over. And here we are, still at 
the same old task, lopping off the Dragon's heads that the 
Dragon may propagate more heads. The labor of such 
reform is the labor of Sisyphus or the Danaides. 

There is only one possible, positive remedy for the whole 
evil of sex, and that is the teaching and practice of Re- 
generation. To be sure, to make this of universal benefit, 
some new laws would need to be enacted, but such enactment 
will follow naturally whenever inherent prejudices and edu- 
cated beliefs shall have been outgrown or laid aside in the 
interest of the higher truth, as they must be before any great 
progress in this direction can be made. If conditions were 

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made right and nature's laws respected, there would be an 
end to sex-abuse of every sort — an end to that awful line 
of venereal diseases, and sexual disorders, which sweep thou- 
sands annually into untimely graves, and taint and accurse 
other thousands Kving or unborn — an end to innumerable 
and unnamable crimes resulting from sex perversion. 

With Regeneration comes an end to the taste for alcohol, 
tobacco, and other stimulants — a taste which in nearly 
every case as has been intimated is caused by some abnor- 
mality connected with sex and its expression by which the 
system is depleted and thrown out of order and has to be 
** braced." And right here let me say this, that, under the 
present conditions, it would be as great a cruelty to deprive 
the working man of stimulants as the soldier of the canteen. 
It would be as impossible for a race of sexual generators 
and dissipators to do the world's work without stimulation 
as for worn and rusty machinery to work without lubrica- 
tion and repair. All enforced reform along this line leads 
but to greater deformity. 

In fact. Regeneration, rightly understood and practised, 
is the only divinely designed, normally expressed life on this 
plane of existence. It is above all sciences, above all arts, 
because it re-creates the creator of all these, who, thus poten- 
tialized, possesses still greater power to re-create both science 
and art and bring them up to vastly higher planes of expres- 
sion. 



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SIN AND ITS REMEDY 

" In that day there shall he a fountain opened to the House 
of David, and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, for Sin and for 
Uncleanness." 

I DESIRE to make it very clear as to what constitutes 
" sin." The fundamental idea of sin has reference entirely 
to the physical nature, for nowhere else can sin become 
manifest. To be sure, it is the action of the mind which 
primarily causes the manifestation. Anything done wil- 
fully which injures the normal action of any physical function 
is sin. 

Thus, it is apparent that sex-abuse is not the only sin. 
Gluttony is a sin, over-work is a sin, violent exercise is a 
sin — excess of any sort is a sin. The sin may always be 
recognized by paying heed to the voice of the soul which 
protests against it in tones of pain and discomfort. The 
same protest is heard if the body be submitted to the other 
extreme, starvation, inactivity, indolence, which are all to 
be classed as " sinful " conditions. 

In all things there must be established a mean between 
extremes, in order to secure balance, equilibrium, poise. 
To acquire this happy medium demands constant thought 
and attention. Here is where the mind comes into its legiti- 
mate field of action. Through this action, the " fallen " 
mind begins its rise towards the Father of Lights, the soul. 
It does this by means of mento-psychic sexation through 
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the attributes of the mind or of the soul, just as any offspring 
may resemble either parent; but with the mind placed 
constantly upon higher ideals, the souFs reflections, the Will 
comes more and more into accord with the divine, and 
this is true, spiritual progress. 

The knowledge and practice of Regeneration greatly as- 
sists in this " return passage " of the degenerate, or unre- 
generate, mind, making it a journey of joy straight home, 
rather than a forced and weary march with many a detour 
and retreat. And this for the reason that the sex-nature, 
being the physical expressment of the creative potentiality, 
is at the foundation of all. If this be allowed to have its 
legitimate, divine expression, the whole being becomes trans- 
fused with Light, and the soul sings a song of thanksgiving 
and happiness. Poise is attained at a bound, without any 
severe or strenuous effort, because the conditions of poise 
are already created and present through this very expres- 
sion. 

Nearly every one may recall instances in his or her ex- 
perience to verify this fact, and yet no one can have had 
more than a glimpse of the possible beatitudes of this har- 
monious relation, the full influx of divine ecstasy resulting 
in health and wholeness being something that can be known 
and realized only in the truly regenerate life. 

As before stated, all abnormal appetities which are wont 
to become vile and disgusting habits in themselves — habits 
which men frequently fight to overcome, and often fail in 
the fight from lack of sufficient will-power — all these drop 
away naturally when the cause for their existence is removed, 
which cause is invariably traceable to some unnatural sex- 
condition — either enforced abstinence or abnormal excess. 

The yielding to the passional impulse in the ordinary way 
leads always to the same result — physical exhaustion, 
enervation and finally disease and death. It is just as much 

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a " sin " from nature's standpoint in one case as another. 
No human law can condone, no prayer consecrate it. But 
passion "per se is simply Soul Hunger — the voice of the soul 
calling for a certain form of nutriment, exactly as ordinary 
hunger for food is the voice of the same soul calling for an- 
other kind of sustenance. If this passion be obeyed in 
the right way the soul will be satisfied. 

And this way is the way of Regeneration of which much 
has already been spoken. If the soul be truly satisfied, 
if it has received the Divine Ambrosia for which it was 
calling, the whole body is filled with joy and satisfaction, 
simply because this " nectar of the gods " has been created 
and distributed to every famishing little Sol at the center 
of every cell. As a matter of fact and truth, it is the com- 
bined cry of these famishing cells which constitutes the 
" cry " of passion itself. 

In the ordinary generative act, which is from the highest 
standpoint wholly incomplete, the ambrosia or spiritual 
cell-food for which the soul hungers and thirsts fails ever 
to materialize, and therefore the cells starve and die; and 
it is exactly this, as I have explained, which creates a craving 
for strong drink and tobacco, for opium and hasheesh, and 
for the many other stimulants that men and women indulge 
in. 

In addition to this, the sex-passion itself becomes more and 
more abnormal and debased in its expression because the 
cells continue to hunger and the voice of passion becomes at 
last a mad, wild cry, and then you have the insanity of 
passion which has driven many a poor wretch to an untimely 
noose or the stake. 

Men and women too, though none are free from the " sins 
of sex," are as merciless fiends when it comes to meting 
out punishment to another for an overt transgression of the 
arbitrary laws of sex; but Almighty God appears at last 

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more implacable in his punishment of the universal infrac- 
tion of the great law of life, for his penalty is death, and 
every " sinner " is doomed to meet the punishment. " Ven- 
geance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord! " 

What, then, is this " fountain opened in the House of 
David? " To imderstand this, we need to know the signifi- 
cance of the word, " David," and go somewhat into its 
history. David is from an old root-word, DAD, meaning 
" the root." It is the same as the Sanskrit, TAT, or the 
Egyptian, THOTH, which appears in our language as 

" THOUGHT." 

Isaiah says, " In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, 
which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the 
Gentiles seek; and his rest shall be glorious." This 
is presumed to be prophetic of Christ's coming, and so it is. 
Jesse was the father of David, who represents the " old 
root " (Jesus, the foundation) out of which later on the 
Christ branch springs. 

Out of David comes Solomon, whose birth, if it be accepted 
as literal history, might put an ineffaceable stain upon 
David's character. David is represented in the story as 
having become enamoured of Bath-sheba, whom he first 
spied in the bath, and whom he had brought to him in his 
harem, afterwards causing her husband, Uriah, to be placed 
in the hottest part of the battle so that he should be slain 
and David might possess himself permanently of his wife. 
The Lord is said to have been displeased with this action of 
David's, so that the child of the liaison was born dead. 
But David having repented of his wickedness, begat as his 
second son by Bath-sheba, Solomon, the wisest and richest 
of men — a type of the perfect Sun-man. 

In this allegory, if we can but understand it, we again 
have the entire regenerative process set forth, though very 
occultly. Even the names of the characters assist in the 

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solution. David means the " root-substance," which of 
course is the generative substance. Bath-sheba means 
" HOUSE OF SEVEN " indicating the seven astral potencies 
in the redeeming Life-Fluid, which is to be considered as 
feminine. Uriah means " light," and is the illuminating 
principle itself, which has to be " slain " before the real 
REDEEMER, the Sun-Man, can be brought forth — sim- 
ilarly as John was beheaded that Jesus might follow and 
fulfil the Divine Mission. 

Observe here that the first child dies. That is the " child 
of sin " or generation, which in the present allegory, however, 
is not to be considered a bodily " child," but rather a sub- 
stantial entity, forming the " root " or basis of the redeem- 
ing, soular potency. And this is the " Fountain opened 
in the House of David," later expressed through the regen- 
erative process as SOL-OM-ON, the Great, the builder 
of the Perfect, Human-Divine Temple! 



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THE SAINTLY IMAGE 

" The Son of Man is come eating and drinking: and ye 
say. Behold a gluttonous man and a vdne-bibber, a friend of 
publicans and sinners,^* 

In front of one of the fashionable churches of Boston 
there stands a shrine and in the shrine a statue of Philhps 
Brooks, the famous preacher. Behind the robust and vital 
form of preacher Brooks, stands a gaunt and spectral figure 
of Christ, represented as the spiritual, or inspirational, 
genius of the preacher. 

I stood and looked long at these figures, and recalled other 
similar figures and paintings of the Christ executed by the 
old masters of art, and I asked myseK the question, " What- 
ever gave these artists, imbued as they were with the spirit 
of Christianity, any such conception of the Master? " 
Surely the conception portrayed could never have been 
gained from the recorded history of Christ, for it is said of 
him that he came eating and drinking, that he created wine 
at feasts, and that he mingled with all sorts of people. He 
was neither an ascetic nor a recluse. He associated with 
women and sinners. He was neither meek nor mild, but bold 
of speech, with the courage of his convictions. For, note 
how he drove out the money changers from the synagogue 
and denounced the clerical hypocrites! 

That Christ did not in his teachings advocate celibacy 
has already been shown. Indeed he could not have solved 
the problem of Regeneration as a celibate, nor as such could 

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lie have been a Master. If he really was the meek and 
humble personage he is portrayed to have been, an ascetic 
addicted to continence and fasting, and living the life of a 
hermit or vagrant, why do not consistent Christians follow 
his example? Did you ever see a Catholic priest who in any 
way resembled the figures or pictures of the Master, Jesus 
Christ? 

The truth of the matter is, the representations of the Christ 
which the church painters and sculptors of the middle 
ages and some of modem times also have given us, are more 
mystical and misleading even than the historical character 
of Jesus, and are far, very far, from presenting the real truth 
of the character. 

If we had to " eat the body and drink the blood *' of a man, 
we certainly would not pick for the purpose any such cadav- 
erous, anaemic specimen of humanity as Christ is shown to 
be, yet he admonishes us to do this very thing — to eat his 
body and drink his blood! 

Jesus came to earth evidently a joyous babe. He was the 
recipient of royal gifts, the homage of the wisest men. He 
grew up a humble carpenter. He never courted the class 
of society that has today idolized him and deified him. He 
chose for his companions rough fishermen, becoming noted 
as the friend of publicans and harlots. 

At an early age he is shown teaching in the temple and 
confounding the old religious moss-backs of the time, whom 
he scathingly denounced for their hypocrisy and dogmatism. 
He still teaches in the same temple, and the same elders are 
confounded and reproved by his doctrine. He still builds 
for his Father, Joseph, mansions in the skies. He is still 
eating and drinking, and is to be found more often in the 
company of the morally tabu than elsewhere. To vengeful 
and vindictive humanity he continues to lift a warning finger, 
crying: ** He that is without sin let him cast the first stone! '* 

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whereupon, one part of humanity slinks away condenmed, 
while the other cries out, " Away with him! crucify him! " 

The Church has succeeded in exactly reversing the image, 
and inverting the doctrines of Christ. The things he taught 
them to do they do not, but pretend to do, while the things 
he taught them not to do, they do and declare they do not! 
And the more they tinker and reform the fundamental and 
original doctrine of Christ, the further they get from the 
true conception of it, and the more the idea becomes ob- 
scured in the minds of the people generally. After all, the 
ceremonialism and pomp of the Catholic Church, with its 
obese priesthood and luxurious estates, comes vastly nearer 
expressing the real Christ-ideal than the informality and bar- 
renness of primitive Protestantism with its lean clergy, and 
heavily encumbered churches. 

For in the ceremonials of the Mother Church we are able 
to trace out the beautiful symbolism, derived from remote 
paganism, which is therein largely preserved, and which, 
rightly interpreted, leads the mind to a true understanding 
of the Christ-principle; while in the abundance which sur- 
rounds this same religion we have a model of the temporal 
conditions which a knowledge of the true Christ should 
bring to every man. 

In its revolt from the erstwhile gross misusages of eccle- 
siastic power. Protestantism went to the extreme of divesting 
religion of all its significance and attractiveness. It des- 
troyed the emblems of fecundity and affluence, and substi- 
tuted instead the ideal of morbidity and penury. 

But nature sits by and smiles, and takes her own time and 
her own way to correct blunders of this sort. The New 
Protestantism is slowly and unconsciously threading its 
way back to the old path again. It has its richly endowed 
and luxuriously appointed places of worship, and much of 
the old ceremonialism is being re-established. And at last, 

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we have witnessed the accession of a Female Pope on a 
Protestant throne! Thus does history repeat itself in re- 
markable ways. 

All this is as it should be. Religion, if it stands for any- 
thing, stands for joy and opulence. The promises of Christ, 
taken seriously, and rightly understood, lead exactly to such 
a state. The Church has merely to work out of the Jesuitical 
errors and misconceptions with which formerly the Christ- 
ideal was clothed, making of the saintly figure a caricature 
— a target for the jest of the impious, and the scorn of the 
thoughtful. 

Let us then strip the figure bare of its priestly habiliments, 
its funeral shroud! Let us, if need be, burn the old effigy of 
the Christ, and relegate the pierced mummy of " him cru- 
cified " to the museum of monasticism! Then let us take the 
LIVING WORD revealed to the world by a mighty spiritual 
avatar two thousand years ago, and from this WORD, let 
us re-construct a New Christ, living, breathing, pulsating 
in the heart of humanity — a priest after the order of Mel- 
chizedek, a " prince of peace," who will go forth to meet 
Abraham coming from the land of Ur, and impart to him the 
secret of the Altar, of the Fire, and of the Sacrifice — who 
will teach him how to bring forth Isaac, a " child of laugh- 
ter," in his old age, and how to number his immortal children 
as the stars in heaven! 



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CHAPTER XXV 

THE UNBORN SOULS 

Although it may be stated as a law that the cessation 
of death would mean the cessation of birth, because gener- 
ation ceases before regeneration begins, yet this does not 
mean that the law will come into force suddenly or univer- 
sally. There need be no fear of the world's coming to an end 
through any possible decrease in the birth-rate among the 
higher orders of humanity, because the teeming multitudes 
of the lower order are forever coming up through generation 
and birth. 

Although we have but practically just entered the re- 
generative era of the race, the operation of the regenerative 
law may be already noted. 1st, In the growing disregard of 
the old marital law governing generation, and 2d, In the 
almost universal denial of offspring and the shirking of 
parental responsibilities. 

That which under the old law was termed " illicit " inter- 
course is becoming more and more general and is extending 
constantly to embrace the youth, who have become " wise 
as serpents and harmless as doves." This is evidenced by the 
revelations of the medical men and the press, but more 
especially by the intense note of alarm being sounded by 
the conservators of the old regime, the moralists and the 
clergy. 

We hear men of the Rooseveltian type haranguing the 
mothers to produce more sons and daughters to be " the 
pride and glory of the nation," but instead of the looked- 

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for applause, there is only ominous silence or bitter repartee. 
Even the mothers have awakened. You may garland the 
head of a beast as you will — may cover the ass with the 
lion's skin, but the protruding horns, or the blatant roar 
will reveal its true character. 

It may take generations of generations, eras of rebirth, 
to awaken the soul of man to the truth of Regeneration, 
but once the Light breaks, and the Law becomes manifest, 
it is equivalent to being bom into an entirely new sphere or 
world. And the experience is much the same, it may be 
imagined, as if a fish suddenly acquired feet and lungs, 
enabling it to walk forth a breathing animal upon the land. 

But there comes in evolution always an intervening, am- 
phibian period. And it is this we are about entering. People 
will see the glimmer of this Light and will reach out for it, 
but the old life with its environments, its habits and tradi- 
tions, will still hold them back. They will only rise to the 
surface or crawl out upon the banks at intervals. They will 
bask in the New Light, breathe the New Air and learn to 
love it, and finally, through higher aspiration, will acquire 
organs enabling them to survive continuously in the new 
atmosphere. Then and then only will they drop their fins 
and tails. 

It is to the amphibians, for the time being, that I address 
myself, to assure them that they rim no risk in thus seeking 
the Higher Spheres, to assure them that when they have 
experienced something of the Regeneration, have felt some- 
thing of its wondrous transfiguration, if their heart still 
inclines them to the propagation of Little Fishes, these will 
be far more remarkable fishes than the Sea has heretofore 
seen. 

To drop the figure, if people living the regenerate life, 
after they have become truly polarized and wedded together, 
desire to unite their forces intelligently in the re-clothing of 

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some pure white, waiting soul, they will have power to usher 
it into an environment more beautiful and grand than 
anything ever known on the normal, generative plane. 

It is an undeniable fact, proven by the self-confession of 
nearly all now living on the generative plane today, that, with 
few exceptions, birth is an accident, and very often a most 
unwelcome accident. What the effect of such adverse 
thought held over the coming offspring may be, it is difficult 
to know, but it is reasonable to suppose that it must be very 
pernicious; however, it is strangely ignored by the propa- 
gating masses. 

The Eugenists have taken up the defense of the unborn 
in their slogan: "The right of a child to be well born,*^ 
and it is a truly noble work that they are endeavoring to 
institute, but I fear the results of their well-intentioned 
crusade will be meager, inasmuch as those who should heed 
it are often quite too ignorant or apathetic to do so, and those 
who are intelligent enough to make a satisfactory application 
of the Eugenist principles in their own lives have already 
been touched by the Regenerative Ray and desire something 
above generation. 

The only way I can conceive that any great reform in 
generation can be effected is to first introduce the principle 
of regeneration. Parents living in the Regeneration, who 
have a love of children, may bear them under the most ideal 
conditions possible. Such parents will be physically fit to 
bear children, and they will understand that they have no 
right to bring children into the world unless they can provide 
for them properly and devote themselves to their education 
and training. Such a work involves sacrifice — great per- 
sonal sacrifice, but there are those who love to render it, 
and they are the proper ones to father and mother the forth- 
coming generation. 

Woman is now clamoring for a place at the polls. Her 

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instinct is leading her aright. She has a place there. But 
she has an infinitely higher place, — I am speaking now to 
her on the generative plane — and that is to produce a son, 
or a daughter, who can and will vote more intelligently and 
honestly. I do not think that the purification of politics 
will be appreciably affected by the enfranchisement of 
women — not directly so, any more than that the result of an 
equation will be changed by equally augmenting the factors 
on both sides. 

The idea is not to poll more Democratic or more Republi- 
can votes. The idea is to gain the higher conception of 
truth and of life, so that the lower laws may be amended 
in conformity with the higher and ever progressive ideals 
of the race. And think you that this can ever be done 
when into the balance against the intelligent and aspiring 
few there is ever thrown the ignorant, illiterate and grovel- 
ling mass? 

I see woman's work — the work of the advanced woman 
— to lie along regenerative lines. The work will be spiritual, 
intellectual and physical — depending on conditions; but 
whatever it is, it will ever be educative and refining. For 
it is woman's influence which eventually elevates the race. 
Let her study to know the wisest way. 



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THE PRAYER THAT PREVAILS 

" Zf two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything 
that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father which 
is in heaven. For where two {or three) are gathered together 
in my name, there am I in the midst of them J' 

The reader should by this time be in position to apprehend 
something of the real meaning of this wonderful statement. 
Herein we have the assurance that if two are united in the 
NAME of Jesus, they are thereby able to invoke his presence 
potentially, which means that the united desire of two souls 
thus en rapport, will be brought to pass. And this, then, is 
the secret of the efficacy of prayer. 

Jesus has already taught us how to pray: "Enter into 
thy CLOSET and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy 
Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in 
secret shall reward thee openly." 

The secret of this prayer lies in the " closet " and the 
" door," as well as in the " word," by which the Father- 
soul is invoked and caused to answer. And the prayer itself, 
the Word, is: 

" Give us this day our daily bread,'' What bread? Jesus 
says, " I AM THE BREAD which came down from heaven." 
This prayer is to Heaven to send this bread, and if two 
unite, under conditions of perfect love and trust, this 
" bread " is sent to them, and there stands Jesus, " the door 
being shut! " This is the bread which if " cast on the wa- 
ters " returns an hundred fold. 

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Notice the text says, " two or three." There are, as I 
have endeavored to explain, two distinct principles operative 
in this work, both of which may be said to emanate directly 
from the masculine sphere. These might outwardly be 
regarded as material, though inwardly they contain a purely 
spiritual germ. But the third principle, that completing 
the Divine Trinity of occult forces, is something quite 
mysterious, capable of being apprehended only through 
the psychic sense. It is the Ignis Dei, or Fire of God of 
which mention has been made, proceeding from the heart of 
Woman. It is the spark that unites and sets a-flame the 
dual elemental substance, causing a mystic metempsychosis 
— a passing of the soul of the mixed from a low material to 
a highly spiritualized body. 

This Fire is the most sacred thing in the world. It is the 
Fire which the priestesses of Vesta kept burning perpetually. 
The penalty for letting the fire go out was death, symbol- 
ically showing it to be the fire of life. It is the light which 
the five wise virgins prepare for by filling their lamps before 
entering the wedding chamber, while the foolish without oil 
are excluded. 

This fire is symboled by Oil — the oil that Mary Magda- 
lene broke over the head of Jesus. It is physically expressed 
as a subtle oil that creates, so to speak, the fuel of the trans- 
mutive flame. 

But the great error of the world has been in the application 
of this Fire to base purposes — to the burning of Earth, 
leaving it a charred and blackened (sick and despairing) 
mass. Even the name it is known by in the world, " Pas- 
sion," has come to be a hissing and a by-word. The word 
passion means " suffering " (from Lat. potior, I suffer), 
and expresses the exact realization that the world has ex- 
perienced from it. 

Fire is a terribly destructive agent when it becomes the 

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master. However, for that reason, men do not condemn fire, 
but set to work to find a way to control it, and then it be- 
comes a wonder-worker for them. Likewise men condemn 
Passion because it sweeps over humanity with its scorching 
and bhghting flame. Men condemn it because they have 
not yet learned how to control it, and consequently have 
no conception of its marvelous potency when under control. 
When they learn this, they will no longer condemn, but 
extol it as the highest, and most beautiful gift of God to 
man. 

Passion is the voice of the Soul, the voice of God. It is 
the cry of the separated divinities calling for their own. 
In the beginning the Elohim, the Gods, the male and female 
deities, united to create man and woman and " in their 
image created they them.'' In man there is placed one di- 
vinity, in woman another. In the ideal creation in Eden, 
the creatures or bodies of the Divine One were as " one 
flesh," and the gods abode together in the beautiful garden. 
But then came the serpent, generation, and the gods were 
forthwith isolated, the man and woman were separated, 
which meant banishment and labor and death. 

Only one thing they retained, and that was the power of 
perpetuating life in the species — in conformity with the 
great law of nature, " As one sows so he shall reap.'' But 
the harvest was gained through great labor and pain because 
the perfect law was not apprehended. This law is revealed 
in Jesus, who comes to perfectly unite the lost and wandering 
souls of earth, and to create, after all these ages, an angelic 
race. 

I trust the reader will not forget that Jesus, as I refer 
to it, is no person, or personal spirit — no mystery, but a 
living force apprehensible alike to every bodily sense. It is 
the KEY to the Door — the rejected Corner Stone of the 
Temple. " Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any 

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man hear my voice, and open the door, / will come in to 
him and will sup with him and he with me." 

Thus, as in many other figures, Jesus comes " eating and 
drinking," showing himself to be some superior, nutritive 
element. But the grandest fact of all to contemplate is that 
through his coming into the " midst," all things, on all 
planes, become possible of attainment — by the united 
thought of the linited. 

Here we see the ideal realizable in and through a per- 
fectly harmonious and reciprocal relation. And what is this 
but the bursting of the sweet flower of optimistic faith, 
through the clouds of pessimism and doubt — out into the 
glorious simlight of the Joy-World? 



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CHAPTER XXVn 

THE FUTURE OF THE REGENERATE RACE 

" Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into 
the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them 
that love him," 

To look forward and see what is to happen in the future 
of the race can only be done through prophetic inspiration. 
Yet, reasoning from cause to effect, we may easily predict 
some things that will occur. 

I believe in the on-march of the human race and its tri- 
umph over all conditions inimical to its perfect expression. 
The many blotches that are now to be seen upon the es- 
cutcheon of the noble warrior, Man, in the form of pain, 
disease and death, shall all be wiped away. 

The form of the present body will gradually be changed, 
and be entirely different from what it is today. With the 
change in the physical structure, will come corresponding 
changes in the mentality. One of the first distinctive mental 
acquirements will be the power of thought-projection. We 
are on the eve of this development today — a development 
that is paralleled by, and keeping pace with, that of elec- 
tricity. 

One of the things to follow in the regenerate era will be 
the control of bodily vibration, whereby, by thought and 
aspiration, man will be able to render his body lighter than 
air. That he may yet grow wings like a bird is also not 
unreasonable, thus verifying the actual picture, or mental 
concept, of the " angel," so long held by the race. 

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It is easy to conceive of the Redeemed Twain having the 
power to form a perfect dynamo at any time, so as to be 
able to rise at will in the air. This vision has been coming 
to me for many years, and I expect to be on earth when it 
happens, and to be myself among the aviators. 

A great adept, Thomas Vaughan, says, " God minds not 
the restitution of man alone, but of all nature." Man can- 
not rise in the scale of progression without causing nature 
to rise with him. This is to be accomplished through a 
mastery of the law of transmutation. Man will learn how 
to resolve all substances into the primal matter out of which 
they were created, and thus be able to re-create them at 
will. By this he will be able to change clay into precious 
stones; from coal he will get diamonds, from certain base 
metals, gold and silver. This has already been done, but 
the art will one day be more universally known. 

Best of all, man will be able in the Era of the Regenera- 
tion to create his food direct from the air. The law, " Thou 
shalt not kill," will then as sacredly apply to vegetation as 
to animals, and as sentiment is now gradually unfolding it 
in the race. 

All that lives and has in it the Divine Spirit, that struggles 
through generation to perfect the vehicle of manifestation 
and come into the Light of Life, will be aided by its highest 
perfected manifestation, Man, who will indeed stand for 
the true vicegerent of the Almighty, even as popes preten- 
tiously do today, foreshadowing by this the state to be real- 
ized in the Age of Regeneration. 

This glorious age into which the race is moving may be 
called the Age of Freedom. No one will be bound, all will 
be free — physically, mentally, spiritually — and this will be 
accomplished by the mastery of want, effected by the un- 
derstanding of the law governing supply. No one will 
want for anything; and, emancipated from the haunting 

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fears of poverty, disease and death, man will for the first 
time in the history of the race be free to follow his aspirations 
and his ideals along creative lines, in which now, alas! he 
is hampered and handicapped at every step by false condi- 
tions and environment. 

In the age of the Regeneration, there will be but one law, 
the law of love, operative in human society, and that law will 
set all free, govern all, and produce in all a state of peace 
and progression which exists today only as an Utopian 
dream. 

Being free from the tyranny of generation, which alone is 
productive of sin and discord, we shall naturally rise into 
the higher atmosphere of liberty — the ideal state, wherein 
truth abides and happiness is to be realized. 

It has long been contended by certain philosophers, 
who have endeavored to reconcile conditions to life as it 
exists, that man rises in the scale of life only by reason of 
opposing forces. But the truth is, rather, that he rises in 
spite of such opposition. The potato which awakens in 
spring to find itself immured in a dark cellar sends out a long 
tendril to reach the crack of light streaming through the 
wall, but is not that a loss of vitality, a needless expenditure 
of its forces.'^ Is the life of such a vine anything more than 
a vast struggle against unconquerable odds.f^ Can it ever 
become productive or fulfil its normal destiny? 

There is nothing in the philosophy of freedom to be 
afraid of — nothing to bring men to the " dead social 
level " — it is rather in the present state of bondage that 
they are brought to such a level through enforced conformity 
to arbitrary laws and customs. There is nothing in freedom 
to cause the fear of social chaos, or " anarchy '* as it is 
understood today. Every intelligent observer can see that 
society is now in exactly such a state. The more coercion, 
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transgression. Freedom is the remedy for oil! Freedom 
implies a state of metarchy (above the law) rather than 
anarchy (without the law). 

Men are not, and never will be " created equal " in point 
of mental or physical ability, but the soul of each is alike 
capable of being filled or of becoming empty, and the life 
of each individual in consequence will be full of joy or of 
misery. In the life of liberty, attainable through Regenera- 
tion, wherein the individual awakens from the nightmare of 
sin and sorrow to behold the dawn of the Light of Life, 
the Soul of each and every one shall be filled with perfect 
satisfaction and joy, and each will be in position and able 
to attain the highest and noblest conceived ideal. 

The perfect law of love, founded on mutuality and justice, 
will displace the present false concept of the law which is 
based on selfishness or personal sacrifice. This law is working 
itself out, and into human consciousness, through the natural 
activities of business exchange and economic development 
generally, and will finally be realized in all its fulness simply 
as mutual exchange of joys. 

Money is the symbol of desire, more interiorly of under- 
standing; indeed, it may be called the visible expression 
of Love itself. Money is the power which regenerates desire 
and unfolds the understanding, bringing into ultimate ex- 
pression the perfect love, embodying freedom and justice. 
When such love is established, there will be the realization 
of perfect faith, perfect honor, perfect truth, and the coining 
of money may then cease. 

The love now experienced in the magnetic, or electric, 
attraction of the sexes, which appears to be only physical, 
though it contains recognizably a germ of divine happiness, 
and in its brief moments of exaltation gains glimpses of 
heaven itself, will in the Regeneration become something sub- 
lime and transcendently wonderful. 

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The expression of love which now appears as base and 
ignoble will be more and more uplifted and refined. As 
the lily which starts from the slime at the bottom grows 
upward, spreading its beautiful blossom on the face of the 
placid pool, so love will grow upward into the LIGHT OF 
LIFE and put forth upon the face of humanity an efflo- 
rescence, a sublimation of the passional impulse, so ecstat- 
ically beautiful that it will be adored by the pure in spirit 
as the Goddess of the World — the embodiment of the Holy 
Spirit, working in and through this vehicle of Love for the 
illumination and transfiguration of humanity. 



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